Tearing It Up
With the lengthy and descriptive title, Just a Bit More Ultimate than John Mendoza's Ultimate Torn & Restored Card, Williams offers a torn and restored miracle that allows a magician to restore a torn card that’s been signed on both sides, and the method requires no complicated sleights. Williams brilliantly leads into the torn and restored segment with a Chicago Opener routine. This one is another winner.
Williams’ Invisible Deck Finesse offers advice and subtleties that improve on the standard Invisible Deck routine. There are some excellent suggestions here. Forklift offers a metaphysical effect where you cause a fork to move across a table without touching it. The method is always ready to go.
In the 4-Way Coincidence card trick, the magician pulls four of a kind from a thoroughly shuffled deck, and the deck can even be borrowed. This is “jazz” magic where the outcome, the four of a kind, is not planned ahead and relies on the state of the shuffled deck. This easy trick is Williams’ reworking of John Murray’s "Card Cavalcade 3."
The Bottom Line
Williams is an engaging and entertaining performer and he offers thorough and excellent explanations. There’s also lots of advice and insight that show that Williams has long performed these routines. The video is well shot with first rate audio.
The only downside, the performance segments are done for the camera and don’t feature any spectators or audience reactions. But this doesn’t detract from a great DVD that serves some strong material.
In Miracles for Mortals Vol. 1, Geoff Williams offers an excellent set of crowd pleasers that isn’t hard to learn and perform. I’m looking forward to reviewing the next volume in his series.
-Wayne N. Kawamoto
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