A fun exciting and very Underrated movie

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2011)

I was all set to see this film at cinemas but many critics said the film was poor but recently I saw this at a friends house and realized this is one of the most Underrated films ever. Prince of Persia The Sands of Time has everything a movie needs Action Romance Comedy and a good plot. Jake Gyellenhaal is great as Prince Dastan a boy who lived on the streets before been adopted by the King, Jake does the action scenes very well and makes Dastan a likable character someone you get to really care about as the film progresses. Gemma Arterton is fantastic as the very beautiful feisty Princess Tamina the guardian of the dagger of time. Jake and Gemma have brilliant chemistry in a relationship that starts off with hatred which turns to friendship and then to love. Sir Ben Kingsly delivers another excellent performance as Nizam the scheming Uncle of Dastan who will do anything to get hold of the dagger. The best performance in the entire film in my opinion falls to Alfred Molina as the scene stealing Shiek Amar, Molina brings all the comedy to the film as the greeding tax evading Shiek who has a love of Ostriches and has Ostrich races hilarious.
I really enjoyed this film and don't understand why it got so much criticism. Most of the criticism came from the film differed from the game well I have never played the game so I cannot compare the two but most of my friends who have played it and seen the film tell me it did not change that much. Also the fact that most of the cast were English and American and not Persian bugged them well the cast was perfect in my opinion you have to remember this is a film and wont be perfect but this is very close to it.
I really hope they make a Sequel at the moment the chances of it are slim as the film did not do as well at the Box Office as expected it would be disappointing as the end of the film seemed to hint there was more to come.