> Criminal by Menny Lindenfeld

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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 19th, 2013
There are clever elements to this, but I don't think it's worth a $10 download. As has been commented here, the trick uses a unique approach to show your hands completely empty after the restoration. There is no TT used. That said, I think a TT might have been a more practical approach than the admittedly clever solution Lindenfeld came up with here.

You have to use a new gimmick every performance. (Fortunately, you can spend the gimmick after its use so you aren't out any money.) There is an alternate handling that lets you reuse the gimmick -- but this handling means you have to forgo the visual rip of the bill.

My big problem is perhaps more with the video than the trick (which resulted in me knocking it a star), and that's that there is no good live performance of the effect outside of what's in the explanation. There's nothing in front of an audience, and while Lindenfeld does perform this at the end, the footage is streamlined through edits. There's on fidget-y moment in the handling that I'd love to see him handle in front of an audience, and the video just doesn't show that.

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