A thoroughly enjoyable summer flick

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2010)

As a fan of the video games, I always hoped this movie would hold true to it's source and turn out well. Low and behold for the first time ever it did.
This was a really enjoyable summer movie. Great cast, great scenery, great effects, good script and decent overall story. I must say I was surprised. Usually the video game to movie genre never really works out well. This I am glad to say does. The essence of the game translates to the movie and it does it justice. If there was no game and was an original movie creation I believe it would still have worked.
Gyllenhaal was very good as the prince. I thought he was great in both delivering his lines and in acting out his action sequences. Ben Kinglsy delivers his usual solid, yet ominous, performance. For the boys, there is not any better eye-candy than Arterton at the moment.
The movies look and feel all sits well together and I am sure people who have never even held a video game controller will still enjoy it very much.
As surprised as I was that this ended up a very enjoyable film, I would be even more surprised if it does not get the sequel it thoroughly deserves.
7/10