The Movie Itself is based on the original video game “Prince of Persia” created by Jordan Mechner and the games in that franchise that followed, namely the one that shares the same title as this film. The film is directed by Mike Newell, with the writing credits of Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard, and with the Screen Story by the video game’s creator Jordan Mechner. Producer here was the famous Jerry Bruckheimer, most recently known for doing the “Pirates of the Caribbean ” films, also with Disney.
The story centers on Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal), who is an adopted son of a king in the Persian Empire. This royal family has plotted to seize Alamut, a sacred city, due to suggestive evidence and rumors that the city is selling weapons to enemies of the Persian Empire. Dastan manages to leak himself and the following Persian army within the walls of Alamut, where the princess, Tamina (Gemma Arterton), is captured. Leading to this event, Dastan has a run-in with the princess’ guard, and steals from him a dagger, unknowing to the decorative blade’s power.
To come to an agreement with the sacred city, the king (Ronald Pickup) arranges a bargain in which Dastan will marry Tamina, rather than his eldest son, Tus (Richard Coyle). After this, Dastan is oblivious that his brother has given him a poisoned robe, which Dastan gives to his father, ultimately killing him. Dastan is forced to flee as no one believes he has been framed for the murder, and he takes Tamina with him. From this point on, it is Dastan quest to avenge his father’s death; which will become even more interesting once Tamina reveals to him the power of the dagger.
“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” is definitely one of the best movies made recently that was based on a video game, that much is for sure. However, that’s not exactly saying a whole lot. Especially if one compares this film to the wide array of video game based films (of which most are horrible), “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” probably ranks somewhere in between. The film does have a good amount of positives going for it in that Gyllenhaal is convincing as Dastan and Ben Kingsley adds a sense of both style and wit to the film. And the two seemingly play well off one another giving us an all-around entertaining film.
Almost all of the elements from the game (of the same title) are found here, the puzzles, the sword fights, the running on ledges, swinging on poles, and jumping off walls and such. Plus, we can’t forget the coolest part, the rewinding of time sequences done in CG where Dastan uses the dagger with the sands of time (similar to how it was in the game). All and all the film is AT LEAST WORTH A RENTAL for most and obviously recommended for fans of the video game (and series itself). There’s lots of good action sequences with sword fights, arrows flying and whatnot that shows off Bruckheimer production value. Also one last thing worth noting that I’d forgot to mention in the synopsis above, Alfred Molina co-stars here in a small part and does a great job as usual. Fans of other recent Bruckheimer produced films for Disney like “Pirates of the Caribbean ” especially will also enjoy this film.
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