From the team that brought the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy to the big screen, Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME, an epic action-adventure set in the mystical lands of Persia. A rogue prince (JAKE GYLLENHAAL) reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess (GEMMA ARTERTON) and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time—a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world. --©Official Site
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The Times
Kate Muir
“Prince of Persia is terrifically good fun, with a pleasing balance of sword-swinging action and zinging irony. A prince and his initially unwilling princess battle dark forces to save a sacred dagger that can turn back time, but the plot is really a good excuse for storming castles, romantic romping on horseback across sand dunes, poisoning, double-crossing and, oddly, ostrich racing.”
21/05/2010
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
“Still, fans of mindless blockbusters will get their money's worth of adventure, spectacle and kitsch, and it's much more entertaining than Clash Of The Titans.”
20/05/2010
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The Observer
Philip French
“These thoughts came to me while watching Prince of Persia which, while based on a video game, is essentially an old Universal eastern that 70 years ago would have starred Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Turhan Bey.”
23/05/2010
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Empire Magazine
Ian Nathan
“Its restraint might put off thrill-seekers, but if you can endure the wooden dialogue and sloppy exposition, it musters the entertainment quotient of a middle-order Harry Potter.”
25/05/2010
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Time Out
Tom Huddleston
“But Newell keeps things moving at a lick, barely allowing his actors a pause for breath between bouts of knockabout banter before chucking them into another athletic action scene. And Gyllenhaal is good value, his natural vulnerability working to offset some slightly alarming action-hero abs. ‘Prince of Persia’ won’t linger long in the memory – but then it probably wasn’t meant to.”
20/05/2010
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Total Film
Jamie Russell
“Slick Bruck-buster dynamics anchored by Jake ‘n’ Gemma’s sparring and sex appeal. But the scripting needs to take another leap if they want this Prince to produce some heirs.”
10/05/2010
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The Guardian
Adrew Pulver
“Director Mike Newell, having displayed his FX chops on Harry Potter, makes everything look very nice and feel fleetingly exciting, but even he can't do anything about the fundamental silliness of the plot, which is so convoluted that its protagonists have to regularly stop and shout out what "must" be done to ensure all the 10-year-olds in the audience don't get hopelessly confused.”
20/05/2010
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“Prince of Persia resurrects a few bygones itself, mostly the derring-do of Raiders and Pirates, though in Gyllenhaal it has rebooted the hero for 21st-century tastes: muscled upper body, running-and-jumping skills à la Bourne and, weirdly, an Estuary accent. (It presumably tested well on research). Alfred Molina injects a little comedy as a corruptible trader with a thing for ostrich racing, while Ben Kingsley goes heavy on the eye-liner as a royal uncle.”
21/05/2010
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The Independent on Sunday
Nicholas Barber
“When did watching a summer blockbuster become so much like poring over a quantum mechanics textbook?... A case in point is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is just as convoluted as you'd fear of a film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, based on a series of video games, and saddled with a colon in its title.”
23/05/2010
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The Daily Telegraph
Tim Robey
“In a movie of wildly uneven technical virtues, the effects sometimes look unfinished, though a crumbling landslide towards the end is everything you could ask a crumbling landslide to be, I suppose. In the middle, we get an ostrich race, which is briefly amusing if a little undermotivated, unless welcome supporting ham Alfred Molina decided he simply had to add the role of a sixth-century ostrich-race promoter to his busy list of credits. Really, who could blame him?”
21/05/2010
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The Sunday Times
Cosmo Landesman
“Probably too tame for young teenagers (10-year-old boys might like it), Prince of Persia is too bland and formulaic to be really enjoyable.”
23/05/2010
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The Financial Times
Antonia Quirke
“Prince of Persia is already a wildly successful computer game. Cinema has always been adept at disguising the sharpness of its commercial cynicism – but films from games do feel like a particularly naked kind. To see film reduced like this, to the far less exciting and involving artefact in a franchise, is pretty depressing. It even makes you begin to feel that the whole form is tatty and defunct.”
19/05/2010
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