More than just video game adaptation

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2010)

It has been publicised that this movies evolves from a video game. But if I hadn't heard, I would have recognized it 10 minutes into the movie, with the first action scene, an ambush of a walled city and palace. The venue and the action sequences cannot have proclaimed this more loudly. Subsequence scenes all reinforce this connection. I intend this observation to be a compliment. Taking fighting sequences from movies, video games have given them a new, intriguing vitality. Putting these now well-developed sequences back on to the big screen in turn gives them a new attraction.
But this is not all video-game action. This is a remarkably old fashion adventure that brings back everything you have always enjoyed from heroic tales in their prime Hollywood days, plus sprinkles of exotic updates. It is somewhat pointless to indulge in a detail description of the plot or the feast of almost non-stop entertainment, in one way or another. Just go and enjoy.
Gemma Arterton, with pouting lips ("..that seem to say: kiss me, kiss me, kiss me, kiss me." – operetta "Princess Ida", Gilbert and Sullivan), has an additional edge in being able to project intelligence and sincerity when needed. Though he is trying, Jake Gyllenhaal still has a long way to go in shedding his "nice guy" image (maybe he needs more time, like Leonardo DiCaprio with his pretty boy image) even though he did manage a degree of flippancy. But, as one female movie columnist in a local magazine intimates, "Gyllenhaal looks hot(but) the prince of Persia ain't no Captain Jack Sparrow". What can I say?