Prince of Persia:The Sands of Time

[TheVileOne]

I liked it and had a fun time. It was a little flawed. The parkour is way too obscured and over-edited at times. It's not a good way to shoot parkour. A few of the effects shots are a little dodgy.

Besides that it was a good throwback swash-buckling adventure. Jake Gyllenhaal was good. I actually liked him in this role which I never expected.

 

[hobo123]

Really? I loved how the site starts out w/ the dagger in the middle and then you land on the homepage. What didn't you like about it?

well first of all there is no full-screen option, then there same background and there are no good wallpapers, i mean to me it just falls flat

 

[Karelia]

From reading reviews, this seems really mixed. I'll be going to see it tonight. If it's entertaining and fun to watch, I'll be happy. Wasn't really expecting a deep plot from this, just some sweet action. The parkour stuff they showed looked awesome.

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

Damn, Prince of Persia always reminds me of the Legend of Zelda games. You know, magic sword controlling time and all. I'd love to see a LoZ movie at some point. Why havent they considered it yet?

A Zelda movie would be the stuff dreams are made of. Heath Ledger would've made a great adult Link in the 'A Knight's Tale' days.

Zelda, Metroid and maybe even a Pixar Pikmin movie... so many possibilities. Nintendo could have such a great film lineup.

 

[xwolverine2]

so whats the general consensus here?

is this movie worth watching?

 

[omid17]

http://www.411mania.com/movies/film_reviews/140433

I saw the movie and I LIKED it.

For once I didn't want to throw a shoe at Jake Gyllenhaal.

I liked it and had a fun time. It was a little flawed. The parkour is way too obscured and over-edited at times. It's not a good way too shoot parkour. A few of the effects shots are a little dodgy.

Besides that it was a good throwback swash-buckling adventure. Jake Gyllenhaal was good. I actually liked him in this role which I never expected.

 

[omid17]

some positive reviews from the audience

The movie was very good and was spot on from the game. Jake did all the same moves as the prince from the game which I wasnt expecting. I was getting flashbacks from the game while I was watching the movie. I wish they did do more with reversing time with the dagger. Alfred Molina was funny.Overall it was great!

I disagree with the time re-wind as being a cop-out because the theme of the movie is turning back time. Its like saying any time the Doctor in Dr Who goes back in time to fix something it’s a bad plot device and that’s just not the case. It sucks when movies do this that have nothing to do with temporal movement but otherwise if the movies theme is just that like as was the case for the BACK TO THE FUTURE series (a highly successful trilogy) its not only OK its almost expected.
At least the way they did it the movie wasn’t blaringly obvious in advance. I mean when we got to the end and the dagger was stabbed into the hourglass there was nothing in the movie so far to lead one to believe everything would be re-wound as far back as it was.
I also like how they handled the rest of the film after the rewind; something that was missing in Nicholas Cage’s NEXT that made it a terrible film, at least not near as good as it could or should have been. In Prince of Persia you got to see some wrap up at the end verses being left with a cliff hanger as was the case with NEXT.
I’ll admit that my tastes are not as tough to satisfy as many but I see that as an advantage because it means I can enjoy a movie, even more than once without it having to be on pair with something like THE DARK KNIGHT or IRON MAN. Prince Of Persia was well done especially considering its background is a video game and I believe it will reign as the top movie in its “Video game to Movie “ genre.

 

[Silver Knight]

so whats the general consensus here?

is this movie worth watching?

Yes, watch it.

 

[TheVileOne]

Yes it's worth a view. It's a good adventure ride movie.

Also as far as the way time was turned back it was basically exactly the same in the 2003 game. Endings are virtually the same.

 

[xwolverine2]

i just saw it... i was not as impressed lol

it was so terribly mediocre. The acting and cast were all great, but the story, dialoge, and action were awful!... they couldnt even edit it normally. They would even do the now dead editing technique of showing something really lame happen twice like an hassassin jumping down or w/e... lol

the only decent action scene in the movie was with the most random character... some slave dagger thrower lol

and dont get me started on the vfx.. it looked like it was done in 2002. They didnt even try with this movie for anything. Like the one pebble causing the avalanche.. after a million years of rocks falling on that floor. -_-

5 out of 10... but ill never see it again.

 

[Sam Fisher]

How close is it to the game?

 

[cyborg ninja 14]

I haven't really played any of the video games this is based upon. I played the Sands of Time game once for about 5 minutes and that was it. I remember being able to breifly go back in time and this movie portrays that several times.

So, best video game adaption ever?

I don't know, the film itself doesn't ever give you the impression the source material was a video game really. Jake Gyllenhall's Prince Dastan isn't one for a personality either. He goes through the motions of being an Aladdin-esque street rat unwittingly brought into a royal Persian family on an act of goodwill. He has two brothers, one uncle (Sir Ben Kingsley) and his father the Persian King.

The political metaphors of this movie are completely "I see what you did thar." An invasion of a holy land under the guise of "they have weapons, we need to stop them but we can't prove it just yet" was pretty obvious. Through this escapade involving Dastan doing lots of fun parkour moves, he crosses paths with Princess Tamina (the hot red headed ***** from QoS and was also in Clash of the Titans). Together she and Dastan have one wacky adventure in Persia where they need to protect the special dagger that turns back time from Ben Kingsley.

Jake Gyllenhall's stuntman is more or less the star of the show as he does crazy stunt after crazy stunt. Princess ***** Galore is hot but she isn't given a lot of meaningful dialogue other than "we must protect the sacred dagger and deliver it to the sacred temple where it will be safe in a sacred place." Needless to say she likes to talk about sacred this, sacred that a lot.

Their love connection meanders along predictably knowing how it's going to end.

Alfred Molina you can tell is having the most fun playing a guy who runs Ostrich races in the middle of the desert. He has the most personality out of anyone and is reduced to a side character. For shame.

The effects with the sand dagger are pretty good, but you never get a sense of peril with any of our heroes in danger so it can be a bit of a bore. Overall it's decent enough if you're looking to kill 2 hours but it's by no means spectacular, seemingly another run of the mill Jerry Bruckheimer produced adventure.

7/10

At one point the goons hunt down Dastan the only way they can. Comb the desert!

 

[bullets]

I heard that they have planned a 7 movie franchise, so we still have 6 movies of tanned Gemma to go!

Haven't seen the movie yet but 7 is really pushing it for something like this

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

7 movies? Sounds like they'd just be making stuff up... just do the game trilogy, jeez.

 

[Silver Knight]

7 movies? Haha no chance. Hopefully we get a sequel though.

 

[bapi]

Extremely boring summer popcorn movie... Where's Sommers or Bay when you need him? 4.5 or 5 out of 10

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, at first the ending seemed like a cop out, but then again, Back to the Future did the same thing. But I think they overused the dagger. There was never a sense of peril or suspense when the action happened. I just kept thinking, "Well, you have the dagger, why dont you use it?" It should have only been used once. They could have taken some pointers from BTTF even. The sand being emptied from the dagger was a great idea, but unfortunately, it was around her neck. It works to some extent, but the dagger just always felt there. It should have been like the Ark in Raiders. Switching from good guy to bad guy. But the problem is, the sand in the dagger is empty, so they could have used that angle to lessen the time sequences, which were impressive, but they would have been more impressive if they used it once of twice at minimum.

 

[Mr. Earle]

What are you talking about? In the game he uses the dagger all the time but in the movie he couldnt because it run out of sand. He only used it a few times and i never felt that it was overused. In fact i expected that he'd use it in a final fight with that snake guy and predict all his moves, but he didnt.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I think three times was a bit too much. I think once, the time when Dastan realizes its power and danger could have been used in a much bigger scene. It could have happened near the beginning of him and Tamina's adventure or in the middle of the film, or it could have been used twice. But both times they had to signify big events. The cobra attack at the camp was cool, but to me that just felt like like they could use it at any time. Or did the sands empty when he used it?

I just never felt any danger or suspense from the scenes. Lessening it makes the usage more amazing but also it makes everything more dangerous. They could have done some more stuff with that. It didn't help that the dagger was with them all the time. Maybe Aldred Molina could have double crossed them and taken it to the city, but then had a plan to take it back all along? His character was great though. He reminded me of Tuco from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. He could have been portrayed as not only a likeable guy, but kind of suspicious and untrustworthy.

When it comes out on DVD I'll give it another chance.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I'm going to be seeing later this today. Hope this is as fun as the POTC films even not even more.

 

[zeptron]

I've never played the games so I was wondering if I needed too in order to understand some things in the movie?

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I never played the games either, i'm just looking forward to a entertaining film.

 

[dark_b]

when was the last time you had to play a game or read a comic to understand the movie?

 

[zeptron]

Well at the end of the first Resident Evil movie I think only fans of the games would have been able to understand that was supposed to be the Nemesis.

 

[terry78]

I saw it. It was fun to an extent...honestly it had the tone of what Robin Hood should have been. I missed the battles with supernatural creatures, but if they get a sequel hopefully they bust out the Dahaka.