Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

Fantastic!

It is so daring, it is so ambitious, it is so thrilling and weird and pointed and powerful. I never knew where it was going.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Prince of Persia is trying to be the new Pirates of the Caribbean, but it fails. It doesn't feel like a video game adaptation, but, honestly, playing the video game is much more fun than watching this movie. It's adventurous, but it's bland and cliched. I was expecting more from this movie.

I had no idea, when i was going to watch this movie & it turned in an awesome experience. Prince of Persia lovers must watch this Movie.

Well, the score here isn't that high, but it's certainly enough for a good movie. I admit to knowing little about the "Prince Of Persia" games. Then again, that might be for the better. Seeing as how video game movies so poorly represent their source material, I don't what to know if they botched it. Well, this is quite faithful as far as I know. I had no idea Ben Kingsley would be in another video game movie, not that it would be hard to be in a better movie than "BloodRayne". I guess the film's biggest strengths are how nice it looks and how the actors are fairly good. It's probably the best live-action video game adaptation I've ever seen.I simply have to say good things like this on at least one of these movies. I admit the plot is a little weak. It didn't seem to really explain how the magic dagger worked that well. Still, as far as leave your brain at the door movies go, this was quite enjoyable. It certainly has interesting ideas and it does have some nice twists. I do like how he initially thinks his father was killed by his brother but it's really his uncle. Does that make this a loose interpretation of "Hamlet"? It's a fairly fun movie. ***

Disney's The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a film clearly designed to appeal to the entire family: for the mums to drool over, we have a buffed up Jake Gyllenhaal; for the dads there is the beautiful (but incredibly wooden) Gemma Arterton; and for the kids there is plenty of video game style action. Oh, and there's an ostrich race, and who doesn't like an ostrich race?Shame that they forgot all about a decent plot.The 'scribbled on the back of a napkin during a power lunch' story that has been built around the popular video game series sees Gyllenhaal's Prince Dastan trying to prevent a magical dagger that can reverse time from falling into the wrong hands. This allows for tons of ridiculous stunt-filled action in which Gyllenhaal's character performs impressive, nay impossible, feats of physicality, a fair amount of mild violence, and a little romance (although Gyllenhaal and Arterton share zero chemistry). Sadly any sense of genuine excitement or fun is swamped by the sheer predictability of proceedings (Ben Kingsley is the real villain? You don't say!) and the glut of CGI enhanced action set-pieces that only serve to bore.