A Masterpiece!

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Nearly every production studio has made an attempt at making a decent video game adaptation. There are some good iterations but the dreaded curse has unfortunately yet to be broken. Based on the Prince of Persia franchise, we follow Prince Dastan who is framed for killing the king. He soon stumbles across a jewelled dagger that has the power to turn back time, and must ensure it does not fall into the hands of someone who has a more insidious agenda. This is just old fashioned fun. Harking back to classic adventure movies like Indiana Jones. If you dust off your sandy serious mind and just observe what's on screen, you'll enjoy it. Start analysing it...and well you'll find issues. Straight away, you feel energised by the light adventurous tone that Disney set out to accomplish. Several action set pieces to keep the eyes engaged, but upon reflection it's not really memorable. They all merge into one. Performances were all solid. Gyllenhaal tackles his first above average blockbuster (*cough* The Day After Tomorrow is below average), I did find his accent confusing. Was he trying to be British? I spent half the time deciphering in my head what his accent was meant to be. Arterton surprisingly held her own and occasionally portrayed a strong independent character. Kingsley...well, I don't think big flashy blockbusters are right for him. The visual effects still look impressive, particularly the scenes involving time reversal. The sandy after effects suited and enhanced these scenes. The script tries to embed humour, but fails. It's so focussed on the word "time" and explaining the rules of the dagger that it just doesn't have enough space for the world building which is fundamentally important in an adventure story. I despise the ending. It negates everything that happened (I understand why) but all the relationships that are established and deaths were just meaningless, making the story forgettable. Tries too hard at creating a franchise.

Prince of Persia is a really fun action adventure flick. While it isn't entirely void of flaws, a few missteps don't affect the movie much. The 3 core elements of the movie are, action, interaction between the main duo and the story. All 3 are quite good actually. The pace of the movie is about right, it's fast, but it's easy to follow. Yes this is a popcorn flick, but it's totally rewatchable and as just as fun each time.So, I've been singing praise of the movie, but I might also shed some light on the flaws. First of all there is shaky cam during a number of action sequences, then there are quite a few slow motion shots that were added in post production without acrually using a high framerate camera (12fps stuff that looks bad). There is one bigger plot hole that is really difficult to explain without spoiling (which I would prefer to avoid). And last but not least, an enemy introduced halfway through the film is quite cheesy and cheese continues whenever that enemy is present.All in all, if you want to watch something really fun (not necessarily very smart), I can't recommend Prince of Persia enough.

I decided to watch this film because of 2 reasons: I'm a fan of the original Prince of Persia games, and I like some movies where Jake Gyllenhall is. But this was a total deception. It was a movie without emotions, boring since the first moment. It seemed like someone woke up one day and decided to make a movie about Prince of Persia without any script or any idea on how to make a movie INTERESTING. And, at moments, this movie seemed like a parkour advertising.

I expected a little bit more from this movie. It seemed to me that Gemma Arteton and Toby Kebbell just needed to act better than they were.Some parts of movie seemed to be like a video game - at the very beginning of the movie, when Dastan (Jake Gylenhaal) was attempting to open the eastern gates. And after he had met his 'uncle', running away was just a video game.There's many movies that are video games or animated movies. Many of that movies I was watching, they weren't as good as their video game or animated movie. I could expect that video games or animated movie are inspiration of a movie just like Prince of Persia.Just like I said, I expected more.