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Watch: An Honest Liar 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – AN HONEST LIAR is a feature documentary about the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James ‘The Amazing’ Randi. The film brings to life Randi’s intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasi-religious fervor. A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, the artist Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru named Carlos. But when a shocking revelation in Randi’s personal life is discovered, it isn’t clear whether Randi is still the deceiver – or the deceived..
Plot: An Honest Liar tells the incredible story of the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James ‘The Amazing’ Randi. The film brings to life Randi’s intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasi-religious fervor. A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru names Carlos.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 10,111
	98% | RottenTomatoes
	76/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 171 Popularity: 6.63 | TMDB

Reviews:

Debunking Mystics with a Retired Magician
The cunning, combative career of James “The Amazing” Randi, slightly better known as a professional disprover of psychics and faith healers than as an escape artist and illusionist of his own right. His career arc is an unexpectedly exciting one – he rubbed elbows with Johnny Carson and Alice Cooper in his prime – and as showy as one might expect from a lifelong performer. I found his transition right from the stage into the professional debunking game to be a natural one, not to mention noble (he considers work as a magician to be entertainment, while paranormal hoaxes are just thievery) but some see hypocrisy there. While it stays on the subject of his career, the documentary is a fascinating one. It switches gears in the final half-hour to focus on his personal life, where he’s ironically caught by a private swindle during production, but apart from the obvious parallels to his working life I didn’t find that long aside terribly interesting. Still, a good story, though perhaps not one that needed a feature-length documentary to explore.

Interesting , Cruel . Slightly Unfair
!!!! SPOILERS !!!!! Yeah I know it’s a documentary but I’m taking no chances

James Randi ? One of the first names I discovered via getting connected to the internet . I know over 3.600 IMDb comments beg to differ but when I first had an internet account in Febuary 2001 my favourite sites were the skeptics ones exposing and demolishing everything to do with faith healing , para-psychology and other nonsense . One name that constantly kept cropping up , almost on a par with being a secular God of the skeptical movement , was James Randi , a Canadian born sceptic who started out as a magician and who later became an exposer of frauds , hoaxes and other naughty rip off merchants . This documentary tells of his life , his great successes and his present life which despite all his fame involves something of a personal tragedy of sorts

The documentary works best when it concentrates on Randi exposing cheats and how gullible the public are when it comes to being cheated . Anyone remember The Carlos Hoax ? I’m too young too remember but archive footage shows Randi taking a young South American called Jose Alvarez who claimed to channel spirits of the dead to Australia , making up easily checkable fake resumes and getting “Carlos” on every Australian news and documentary show Carlos strutted his stuff with the dead . He could have been a household name today but it was up Randi and Alvarez themselves to stick their hand up and state it was all an act and was done merely to show how lazy , incompetent and downright useless journalists can be when checking facts . Then we get the famous exposure of evangelical faith healer Peter Popoff whose direct contact with God was down to the much less miraculous miracle of wearing an earpiece and getting his wife to give names and ailments of people in the congregation . Randi’s (in)famous and long running feud is also covered along with a few now forgotten self promoting self proclaimed mystics

Now one thing you can’t really accuse Randi of is being lovable . From what I’ve seen of him he’s short tempered , doesn’t suffer fools and takes no prisoners . This isn’t a criticism and if DOCTOR WHO was an American show Randi would have been born to play the anti-heroic cantankerous incarnation of the first Doctor . Don’t believe for a second that this is a sycophantic glowing love letter to James Randi and the clue is in the title – AN HONEST LIAR . As it turns out Randi is a homosexual which he revealed late in life . Again not a criticism . And he partnered up to Jose “Carlos” Alvarez many years ago . Again not a criticism . But as it turns out Alvarez isn’t who he claims to be and is one Deyvi Pena who entered America on a false passport , Cue a fair amount of unspoken innuendo that the man who exposed so many con artists has become a victim of sorts to a con artist . I thought this aspect of the documentary which has a feel of undisguised schadenfreude was rather unfair and just a little bit cruel towards Randi and ends an often fascinating documentary on a downbeat , negative vote

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min), 58 min (TV) (2016) (Finland)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Director Tyler Measom, Justin Weinstein
Writer Justin Weinstein, Greg O’Toole, Tyler Measom
Actors James Randi, José Alvarez, Penn Jillette
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards 6 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 16:9 HD
Camera N/A
Laboratory Company 3, New York, USA (digital intermediate), DeLuxe
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A