Yeah, but a good film none the less, and for those who know about Tesla, it was a very pleasant surprise to see him turn up.

Also, in some weird way, having Tesla as the inventor leant an air of credibility to an other wise ludicrous plot point.

Right, I thought the idea of Tesla, as a wizard of science among mere squabbling magicians, a fun plot notion. That they dealt with him, almost alone and in his secret keep, surrounded by the mysteries of his work, a wonderful spin on the mythos surrounding Tesla.

It helps that Tesla's personality was bit off in real life, and he did things that even today we think of as a kind of magic.

Of course in the movie what he built was impossible, but the notion that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" kept creeping into my mind.