Prince of Persia
I walked into the theater without much expectation, if any, at all. We all know video games based movie sucks big time. This movie doesn’t change that, but surprisingly, is probably the most enjoyable video game based movies I have seen.
Directed by the fourth Harry Potter movie’s director Mike Newell, the movie run rather smoothly. Even when it switch between a Period epic to some kind of romantic comedy where the leads have the standard love-hate arguments the whole journey relationship to the insertion of goofy elements like a gambling ranch of tax-hating entrepreneur that was built upon an ostrich race. Now that guy was silly and goofy all at one, but I can’t help but laugh about how the great villain of Doc Octopus from Spider-man is now a comic relief. Jake Gyllenhaal did a good job to be a muscular Persian warrior prince, even though to me, underneath all that muscle, he’s still that same kid in the dark Donnie Darko that has a goofy smile. As for Sir Ben Kingsley, he looks bored, and I am bored too, please stop casting him as a villain in some epic children’s summer movies! The man was Gandhi!! There must be some role of him other than a typical villain!
The major element in the movie is of course, going back in time using sand and the dagger of time. I have always hated that plot device, no matter what movie it is. Because it make the last 90 minutes almost irelevant! Some less talented writers and directors would probably, well, most likely use it to get themselves out of a dead end in the story, or to pretty much hit the reset button cos they have no idea how to continue. Case in point is season finale of Doctor Who’s third season where 10% of human race were killed and the rest were enslaved for an entire year, the entire planet become a war factory for war against the worlds. And yet in the end, all of that never really happened because of time reverse plot device! In this movie, it has a slight better used because the characters experienced the future so they know how to act to correct their action and avoid a certain fate. Still, I do not like this plot device and hope no stories ever use it again.
The video games elements did creep into the movie a bit, like how prince of persia jumping around walls and roofs, because you have to do all that in the game! And I believe that dagger of time also made appearance in the latest incarnation of the game. In all, this movie was surprisingly decent, aside from Sir Ben Kingsley, I don’t think anyone is bored~ lol
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