The film follows Dastan, a street urchin plucked into royalty after the king sees him perform a selfless act in the local market as a child. This could be the best video game adaptation yet, certainly the best looking, but it still feels all too clichéd and familiar even though the action is pretty exciting at times and there is a lot of it. “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” is a B. All in all I will say that this is the best video game movie, even with all its flaws.
#Toby kebbell prince of persia movie
I’m not sure why the writers chose to end the movie in this way, it almost seems as if they were watching the time and didn’t want to go over some imaginary limit. Its enough to ruin the whole movie, or at least to make one walk out about 15 minutes before the end. The ending was an abrupt, nonsensical, garish spectacle. The whole cast did their best with what they were given, especially the ending. Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley were, as always, entertaining and Gemma Arterton of Quantum of Solace fame was adequate in her role of Princess Tamina. I found it insulting to the audience as well-are the filmmakers trying to say that it doesn’t matter, an accent is an accent, and most people won’t be able to tell the difference? I know for alot of people this is a small thing but I find it blatantly ignorant.īack to the acting, I was impressed that Jake Gyllenhaal actually pulled of the role of Prince Dastan. I know there has been controversy around this film for making the lead character white, and I can forgive that, but what’s with the British accents? Is “foreign” in the US synonymous with British? As an immigrant I’m kind of insulted. I was pretty irritated at the British accents in the film, more so than anything else. This is where the audience is supposed to use there imagination, right? As if that wasn’t enough, the audience has to use their imagination once more to accept that a group of Persians and middle easterners all have British accents. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a Jerry Bruckheimer production which means that there are a lot computer generated images which make it hard to find anything believable about the movie. In fact, I have to say the whole cast did quite well with the flimsy storyline. To my surprise, Gyllenhaal was not the problem. Not helping my skepticism was that Jake Gyllenhaal was playing the lead in an action film. I went into the theater skeptical of yet another video game movie.