Nice Start to Summer

Rating: 7/10 (29 May 2010)

Usually Memorial Day weekend is the start of the summer movie season and Hollywood usually slots a "perceived" Blockbuster for that spot. This year no Blockbuster type film was scheduled for this weekend. Prince of Persia was the only film that had Blockbuster (limited) potential for the weekend. What can I say about PoP? Think Pirates of the Caribbean. Jake Gyllenhaal could easily be interchanged with Orlando Bloom---Gemma Arterton was almost exactly portraying her character the same as Keira Knightley. The only thing missing from PoP was Johnny Depp acting like a spaced out drug addict. Story wise PoP is based loosely upon a video game, so it plays a bit like a PS3 game. Dastan (Gyllenhaal) scales walls, jumps off buildings, spins, rolls, and does feats that you see in today's video games (looked a lot like Assassin's Creed the way he moved). The story was typical Disney live action movie fare. It was satisfactory towards the picture and did not disappoint, nor break new ground. The performances were also what you would expect in a Disney based film. The movie looked good, it moved at a nice pace, it was not too silly, and thus it was entertaining and worth the ticket price. I would give it a 7/10 and recommend it as a nice popcorn summer movie.