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Prince of Persia was very decent if you're the forgiving sort. It was a predictably light-hearted romp with excellent production value and sets, and all the expected pacing of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The video-game elements were sparse and well-integrated, even if the insipid story drew on for a good half-hour too long. But elements of it keep you quite drawn in, like the excellent stunt work and inventive character design, largely lifted straight from the games of course.
The acting was... heh, well, Ben Kingsley was in it, and as the only thing going for it really, he fell quite flat, though this probably has far more to do with writing than delivery. By the end of the movie I was plain fucking tired from hearing about the Princess Guardian's sacred this-or-that: everything was goddamned sacred to this bitch, it was extremely tiresome and cliche to a point of comedy.
Essentially, it was a fun movie if you're able to kind of cast your mind back for 2 hours and get over the fact that the upper-echelons of the Persian empire are ubiquitously blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and have British accents; Because, ya know, Royalty always does.
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