Magic Tricks

OK, here's the thing: I'm firmly in the camp that people who still hate Jibrizy because "he faked reactions" or "he coached his audience" should get over it. These same magicians who criticise him about this will use stock lines like "there are two ways of doing this, with applause or the way we're doing it right now" or "if that is their card I want you all to go nuts!". There is literally no difference.

With that said, I've tried to watch and review this ACT without any bias towards Jibrizy or his previous actions.

My goodness, I've tried.

Let me be clear here. Jibrizy has chops. He certainly can entertain a crowd, and the audience he has in the performance video is certainly enjoying his act. However, if you're looking for anything new here you're going to be disappointed.

The vanishing bottle is a great opener, but there wasn't anything that didn't separate Jibrizy from any other magician that does the vanishing bottle. The ring routine is a standard piece that you'd probably do if you were asked to do some magic on the spot. The card routine is just an ACR. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's nothing really new.

Some things aren't even taught. If you want to learn the PIN divination then that's in another download (I would argue that it's credited incorrectly to Gregory Wilson rather than Michael Murray but I'll give the benefit of the doubt here).

The biggest crime that the one interesting thing that's in this act is the one thing that isn't taught. The finale that the bell that was rang all the way through the show whenever "something amazing happened" had the ring that vanished from the ring routine at the beginning. While it was fairly obvious what was happening when watching the show, it felt like an insult when you were told that the bell would be a separate product available to be purchased after the ACT. It ended up making the whole thing feel like an advert for the bell.

I really wanted to like what Jibrizy had to offer, but I learned nothing new from this. This ACT may be good for a beginner but it was certainly not informative for someone who's done magic for a while.