Guy’s Review...
Me and Girl took a weekend to Gothenburg and late one evening I dragged her to see this movie. I myself am a big, big fan of the video-game and had very high hopes for this movie. Right from the bat we get to see the young Dastan (Gyllenhaal) jump around on roofs and off beams like he’s a little monkey. This is what the Prince does in the game as well.
The young Dastan saves another kid in the streets from getting executed by the palace guards. A scene ensues much like the scene in Disney’s “Aladdin” where he dodges the guards all over town. The Emperor sees this and admires his strength and takes him in as one of his own. This makes him The Prince of Persia. Years later he turns into the very handsome and now buffed up Jake Gyllenhaal. Him and his brothers attack a city that is said to be selling high grade weapons to the enemy. In doing this Dastan gets possession of a dagger filled with sand. The dagger was protected by the princess of the city. Celebrating the victory Dastan is given a robe that he should give his father as a present. Well, the robe was poisoned and Dastan gets blamed. He sets out on an adventure with the princess and the dagger to find the real killer.
One thing that bummed me out a little bit was the fact that the dagger that can turn back time wasn’t used that much. In the game you use it like every five minutes. Here only once in fighting and a couple of other times that has nothing to do with action.
I have to say though that the movie was very entertaining but far from a masterpiece. It probably helped that I went in without any expectations what so ever. I had a fun time and I have to say that Jake is a handsome son of a B.
Guy’s Rating: Good fun, not true to the game but good fun.
Girl’s One-Liner (I have to give reviews one line thoughts now to try to catch up with all these movies): Jake Gyllenhaal is hot but coping out at the end with a reset button to fuel the franchise is not.
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