Shallow, lightweight entertainment, but sometimes that's all something aims for and Prince of Persia's aspirations are certainly to entertain more than anything else. For me, it succeeded. This was a fast watch that flew by with almost 2 hours feeling like minutes. Jake Gyllenhaal does a nice job as the charming prince with funny one liners sprinkled throughout, most aimed at the princess played by Gemma Arterton. They have nice rapport among them and have enough chemistry to make you believe they fall in love by the end. The story is certainly all over the place and people have complained about that, but if you are familiar with the source material at all it's easily understandable. There's plenty of enjoyable actors playing smaller parts too, from Ben Kingsley to Alfred Molina. If all you want to do is watch good looking people bounce around in an admittedly preposterous film, there's certainly much worse things you could watch than Prince of Persia. It's a fun little movie and I look forward to a hopeful sequel to quench my next shallow entertainment craving.
2 comments:
Great review. I liked the moview as well. Jake played a great role. My kids loved the movie. I wasn't sure how much I would like it, but then I was very impressed. I love your review, great job!!
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one of the best Hollywood movie, agree with you jake did great job in his role. i also visited www.fun4media.com for movies. they are offering great movies for free download
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