As someone who's played the video games... I'M IMPRESSED!!!

Rating: 8/10 (1 June 2010)

I must say, as a video game to movie adaption, they actually did Better with the plot than the actual video game.... It was less cliché on how it was wrapped up, and when it comes to chain-of-events... It's actually slightly more drawn out and complicated than it was in the video game, but more enticing. Though it was so disgustingly disneyfied that I wish Lionsgate films would have picked it up. For some reason, it was like.... Lion King meets Aladdin with "There were no weapons of mass destruction" undertones with a hint of Matrix. You have to see it to believe that one.
They tried so unbearably hard to get as bloodless as they could get. (Funny with a video game to movie involving decapitations, hacking off limbs, and slicing people in half + throat slitting) But if they went to the strict route of the video game, it would have been easier for bloodless violence... But how they would have thrown their own spin into it... I don't know. It would have also made for a longer, and much faster paced movie. It would have lost a whole lot of people. However, the execution of plot was... decent at best. They had thrown things in there that seemed convenient at the time, and they were great macguffins. But they worked. It's one of those "WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTION THAT 30 MINUTES AGO!?" kind of things. But I'll let it slide... Knowing the princess' personality. No, she wasn't dunderheaded, she was just cunning. I'm not going to give away what she had said to lead to certain events, that would be giving away too much.
But whatever, that isn't my problem. I don't have any problem with this movie. The acting was great, the plot execution was between mediocre and good, the ending was... well... an ending you'd expect from Disney, and the special effects weren't overbearing. What they did with the plot was amazing. My mind is actually blown. I give this movie an 7.5/10.
Don't expect a sequel. It doesn't need a sequel... Unless the sands made a comeback and haunted Dastan like it did throughout the entire video game trilogy. But with the way they have things now...it's going to be difficult. I'd like to see how they pull it off. That is IF there is a sequel.