So Disneyish!!!!

Rating: 5/10 (2 June 2010)

well this is my first review and i hate to make it hateful, but i have to say i was disappointed. i just saw this movie at a multiscreen theater and it was not what i expected at all! i think Disney missed the point... they devoted so much to the "feel-good" aspect, they forgot that the Prince is actually an ass-kicking ,bad-guy decapitating, no-mercy warrior, who is anything but chocolatey!! well i was'nt exactly looking for a Dark-Knight here but to tell the truth... i brought no memory of the movie back with me!!! it is based on a video game all right' but all characters were literally one dimensional! The movie played out like a long drawn out trailer with crappy clichéd acting. The only guy who was in his elements was Alfred Molina, he got a few crispy dialogues... Gylenhall was totally underutilised... he couldn't have done much here given the script. And Ben Kingsley, well this is one role he wouldn't be proud of! Gemma doesn't have the charisma but does her job OK i guess. The saddest part is the action -well we all have seen some pretty cool moves which the Prince uses to execute his foes in the games.... the action director could have used some imagination in the swordplay sequences in the movie!! or maybe they wanted to make it more "realistic"?? All the CGI stuff is 'been there seen that' stuff at best!! I would like to know Mr Jordan Mechner's take on this ho-hum adaptation of an exciting franchise.....or maybe some games oughtta remain just games!! Bottomline- if you got nothing else to do and if you liked the last instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean, or you have kids who wanna watch it you may go and give it a dekko!! 5.5/10