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Besides the obvious fact that Jake Gyllenhaal is dreamy, I was pretty excited to see this film come across the silver screen. I've been a fan of the Prince of Persia video game series ever since the first PC version hit in 1990 and I own all 3 of the gamecube games as well, they're fun, plain and simple. The games all provided an entertaining challenge so I knew of the fun on the screen had to live up to fun of the game, right? Well kind of. Expanding the video game world to include 2 other brothers, a king and a "relative" Vizier stretched the story about as far as I think it could go. However, "The Sands of Time" was placed in Disney's and, more importantly, Jerry Bruckheimer's hands to make it a roller coaster ride of entertainment and story and they did just that.
Throughout the film Gyllenhaal provides a strong lead, even though his accent could use a little bit of work, and Arterton shows off not only her beauty but a subtle strength that gives her character more depth than the traditional "damsel in distress." When you toss in the credibility of Kingsley and Molina who, more than once, each steal the show with their darkness and comedy respectively, Prince of Persia, is a good 116 minutes of action and all the twist, flips, jumps and acrobatics that fans of the game franchise are used to seeing. The ensemble cast is great throughout as well providing strong support for the leads. Each supporing actor being afforded time to steal the scenes for themselves, which they all do. The standout among "the supporting" is a strong character driven performance crafted by Toussaint, who is awarded an essential and strong scene within the advancing plot. My only criticism would be a little one in which, God forbid, the Prince of Persia and the "Princess of Persia" be Persian. Other than that it was a good, fun, simple, action film that's a great diversion from the everyday. 4/5 Remotes.
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