Criss Angel MINDFREAK no Planet Hollywood Resort e Casino

I received my tickets for free, but it’s a show I’d be willing to pay like $75 for a ticket to. It’s entertaining and in a really cool theater. If you were a Mindfreak fan you’ll like this show. If you’re a hater of Mindfreak you’ll have nothing good to say. If you don’t like magic because it’s fake then it’s not the show for you…..DUH. Sooo we took our 5 year ALMOST 6 year old to the show… she’s a mature 5. I will say most reviews advised against this, the tickets said 10 and up. And in line it recommends 12 and up. And depending on your kids maturity level this show might be too much for them. You’re the parent so you decide. Yes the show starts as a lot of dark scariness. The hallways to get to the show was the scariest part for my daughter. It has scary clown statues and possessed girl/dolls. The show opens with a pretend kidnapping a like haunted house skit with possessed things coming out from under a bed and it goes on to show a video with what looks like someone being cut into, he does some swallowing of sharp things and does show blood. At this point I did question if I made a bad choice. But my daughter reassured me she was okay to stay and I gave the option to leave if at any point it was to much(our daughter does not watch scary movies and is easy to end up having nightmares). We held her hand reassured her it’s all fake and reminded her she had the choice to leave. And I’m so glad we did stay. There’s a really cool fight scene. The second half of the show was family friendly and very fun. He does story telling, but again if you’re a Criss Angel fan you can appreciate this as it pays tribute to his life and thanks to his fans. Yep he discusses childhood cancer and does promote his foundation to help raise funds. I’m sorry if cancer is sad or triggering but as someone with close friends whose kids went through this it was such an awesome way for him to use his platform and spread awareness. He does some levitating, coin tricks, disappearing and the cool tricks you hope to see. Honestly it was a good show if you can score the tickets for under $100. Depending on your kids maturity level and what they can handle will depend if they can handle this show. I will say it feels like two different shows put together. The beginning is dark and creepy and the second half is more light and just focused on magic. But that worked out for my family since I brought my young kid. We haven’t stopped talking about the show and I think it was pretty cool for my kid!

Not worth the money. He doesn’t do enough tricks/ illusions. Crazy loud and extremely cold. He insists after every little thing everyone has to stand and scream. A great performer shouldn’t have to tell his audience to stand and scream for him. Way too many segments where he just talked and showed videos of how wonderful he is. Also the theater staff is not very friendly.

Honestly where do I begin, worst show I’ve ever seen! Boring and predictable. Nothing stood out for me and it was amateur at best. I was expecting so much more. I came on holiday to have fun, I left the show in floods of tears as spent 20 mins watching a segment on kids that had cancer and died with all the photos and really sad music. Honestly who thought that was a good idea is beyond me, as a mother myself with a young child I can honestly say this ruined my whole evening and I couldn’t stop crying, whilst I appreciate it’s part of life,I do not want to be exposed to it whilst on holiday or watching a show etc, at no point is there any warning of upsetting themes etc. The crowd are shown loads of clips on all the magical stuff he has performed in the past, yet he does none of it!! Waste of money, I would rather of put it in a slot machine!!!

Criss Angel was amazing. If you haven't seen him you got to do it and you won't have no regrets. My husband and I loved every minute of the show.

Criss Angel’s show was a bit of a letdown for me. I went in expecting the Mindfreak style from his 2005–2010 TV days—fast, shocking, and packed with nonstop magic. This felt very different, and honestly much slower and less engaging by comparison. There were some solid moments, but the show leans heavily into long stretches of talking and storytelling, which really slowed the pace. A lot of it felt random—more like disconnected stories about his life rather than something that actually tied into the magic or moved the show forward. It also didn’t feel like a cohesive show overall. It came across as a series of separate segments that didn’t really connect, and some parts—like a sword fighting sequence with no magic—felt completely out of place and honestly like a waste of time. The production is big—lots of lights, music, and effects—but it plays more like a theatrical performance with a heavy metal / Halloween horror vibe than a focused magic show. If that style is your thing, you might enjoy it. For me, it felt like the spectacle was doing more of the work than the magic itself. The levitation at the end is a good example. It could have been a really cool moment if it had been built into a bigger illusion or story, but watching it go on for several minutes on its own made it start to feel more like a gimmick than something impressive. Without context or buildup, it actually made the effect feel less believable rather than more. Overall, I was hoping for more “wow” moments and less filler. Compared to other magic shows in Vegas, this one just didn’t deliver the level of excitement I was expecting.

Totally worth your money! What a better way to escape reality! Definitely recommended! 5 Stars!

It was my first time ever attending a magic show, and I’m so happy it was with one of the legends. The performance was stunning, interactive, and had a personal, human touch from his own life that I honestly loved.

If I could make it - negative stars I would. This was an idiotic loud incoherent mess of self promotion and very little magic. What an awful waste of money and time.

This was my first magic show for me and my son. Let’s just say I made the perfect choice. I was so in awe. Criss Angel was amazing. I just don’t how he does it. I will recommend this to everyone I know.

I'm not going to sugarcoat this. This show was horrible. It consisted of about 5 magic tricks in a 90 minute show. I've seen other magicians in Vegas andother places where the show time absolutely flys by. The 90 minutes spent in this theater took an eternity. Highlights include: Being told multiple times how great he is. He kept saying "I'm going to blow your mind with the greatest tricks that have ever been seen." It's a general rule that people who have to tell you how great they are aren't really that great. He's a magician. Just show us how great. Being forced to stand and clap and hoot and holler for every single thing he does no matter how mundane, uninteresting or something that isn't even a magic trick. At one point he was laying on the ground making out with one of his barely clothed magic assistants who was writing on top of him and then he stood up and forced us to applaud. When I say forced I mean he indicated we needed to stand, ragged on people who didn't stand and stood their with his arms raised just soaking it all in as if he'd just performed some sort of miracle. This show is mostly not magic or illusions. I would say about 20 minutes are spent on magic and illusion and 70 minutes are spent on the following: Criss talking about Criss, Criss showing videos of Criss as a famous magician and as a philanthropist and as a son, and Criss making out with his cast. There is also some audience interaction but not in the sense of the audience getting to participate in a trick. More in the sense of a long riff about giving 10 audience members shots of alcohol that he claimed he laced with drugs and another one about giving a magic kit to one of the kids in the audience and having to wait for the lady who was sent to get the shots to also get the magic kit or something (somehow I lost track of that stream of consciousness). I just want to make absolutely clear that I was not drinking and neither was my husband or our kids. We kept getting lost on why he was talking about what he was talking about. Most of what he was talking about I thought would somehow get back to a trick but sometimes it was 10 minutes of stream of consciousness typed riffing. There is a very long segment (I'd guess 10-15 minutes) about childhood cancer that includes a video and one trick dedicated to it which is his levitation trick and took about 45 seconds. Now I want to be sensitive because Criss's son is a cancer survivor and there is no question that he is a committed philanthropist but honestly I lost my dad a couple months ago and that hit so close to home between that and the separate segment about him losing his dad that it kind of pulled my attention away from any magic after that point. I just hope the performer considers that the audience may not be prepared to hear about cancer and death when they think they are paying for a magic show. There is a lot of self grandiosity. A lot of talking about awards that have been won, illusions that have made him famous, his charity work, his exceptionalism as a son, what he has done for the magic community, both in his own words and through narrated video. I'm not saying it is right or wrong I'm just making sure the next person is more informed than I was about what to expect. This is a difficult review for me to write because I'm an artist also and I understand that putting yourself out there artistically is brave. To do it for decades is incredible. However, honest feedback is important and honestly people love the magic and want to see more of that, especially at over $200/ticket. At the end of the day this is just 90 minutes of a narcissist bloviating about how great he is and demanding totally unearned praise from his captive audience. If he doesn't receive what he seems to believe he is due then he attacks the people he thinks slighted him. You don't need to pay $200/ticket for that. Just turn on the news it's been going on for a decade.