MOVIE REVIEWS - Prince of Persia, The Sands Of Time (2010)

As mentioned, I will start of my 2010 blogging with reviews of movies watched in year 2010. I will kick off with the movies that I've recently watched and is now playing in Singapore cinemas.

Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time

Cast : Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley. Gemma Arterton

I think Prince of Persia is better off as a game. Even though I have never played the game before but I think we should just let games be games. No doubt Jerry Bruckheimer's action and fighting sequences are cool to look at but I find that something is missing in this movie. The whole show is basically about the dagger that has sand in it, that when a person "push" the button on top of the dagger's handle, that person is able to turn back time. But if there are no sand in the dagger's handle, then basically you can't do it. Like some devices which are battery operated, this dagger is...sand operated..but you'll need special sand. Normal sand won't work. (- -")

So throughout the whole movie you will see the dagger, falling into the either the wrong hands or switched between Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Tamina (Gemma Arterton) through games of trickery. Sometimes I wondered, with all that passing around, I'm suprised that the dagger did not fall and its glass handle break into pieces and thus ending the "a bit draggy" movie. Also, whenever Dastan tries to convince his brothers of the truth as to try to keep them safe from the enemy, they will eventually believe him but still dies in the next scene. But alas, as this story is about turning back time...after the whole long labourous process of seeing Dastan trying to save his father (and failed), his brothers (and failed), the heroine (and failed)... almost to the end of the show, while fighting with the evil guy, Nizam (Ben Kingsley), he decides to press the button on the handle and rewinds back to the begining when Halamut was first invaded by him and his brothers and the dagger was first found by him. And with the knowledge that he acquired of Nizam and his evil plans, he confronts him and thus, saves everyone who died in the first 100 mins of the movie, from dying.

And with all Disney movie, in the end the hero receives the respect of his brothers, wins the heart of his people, gets to marry the heroine and lives happily ever after.

Review : 6/10

Comment : Watch it only if you like to watch Jake Gyllenhaal in an action flick (different from his usual softie roles like in Brokeback Mountain and Day After Tomorrow) and of course for Jerry Bruckheimer's action sequences.