All action no plot

Rating: 4/10 (27 May 2010)

If you like your movies fast, handsome, colorful, but at the same time deprived of any coherence,unfolding itself with the help of staged action pieces filled with corny characters, than this Prince of Persia may be right down your alley.
I understand that those types of flicks are being made merely to provide some kind of escapism for a viewer for a couple of hours, but it's nice when you can invest your time in the story and make some connection with what's going on on screen.
I mean after we have been exposured to this dagger that can move back time for the person who possesses it at the moment, movie's plot completely loses remains of any credibility. Whoever will die and whatever will happen later on, you know that it may all be turned around when our hero will push a "button" on a dagger. And let me just tell you that there is a lot of pushing button in the movie.
Main evil character played by Sir Ben Kingsley is suppose to turn around bad in about half of the movie's running time, but you know just when you look at him for the first time that he will be there for no good. As this movie is generally about attacking, killing, framing and generally evildoing(without sex, cursing and blood, this is PG13) you need to have comedic relief, and taking into consideration that blacks weren't much popular at those times(although we have one heroically dying here too) we got Alfred Molina playing according to those principals.
So what is in PoP to look for? You can say that arresting landscape, as it was shot on location in Marroco, but yet again there is so much CGI effects here that you cannot really tell what is real and what's not.
And ending of the movie, which I will not give away is very frustrating and plays against audience showing that you can come for the first 15minutes than leave and return for the last 10 and you will literally have seen whole movie.
So when people like to compare which movie based on video game is the best and where this one ranks on that list, I like to point out that it's poor choice to begin with.