One Of The Underrated Movies of 2010...

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2010)

I will admit three things at first: the plot is not as accurate as you might want to, Jake Gyllenhaal was a so-and-so Dastan and that the movie was so underrated that I had to overrate it a little bit.
The trailers for this movie made it look like another cheap Hollywood representation but after I saw this movie in the theater it did changed my view on it. In the beginning I was not expecting something good from it so I was bashing it from the start but 20 minutes into the movie and I was surprised. It made the movie like it might be something good and it turned to be a good movie and entertaining. Now I won't speak upon the script, but I'll just say that it isn't accurate in 100% but ignoring that I enjoyed the wonderful made action scenes and the way the movie was delivered. What I want to mention though is that the dialogue might seem a little bit forced at times and it didn't actually delivered too much emotion to it so I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing because I was having a really fun time watching the action even if some of the stunts were pretty ridiculous.
It sets a specific mood from the beginning, it has a great cast especially Ben Kingsley or Alfred Molina who seem they can take on any role and turn it into something exciting to watch. I wasn't feeling Jake as Prince Dastan but still he managed to pull a good performance though he didn't actually looked like a persian. Now, judging the female character Tamina, played by Gemma Arterton, I didn't liked her accent but she was beautiful, hot I don't care you name it...
As far as the way the movie was delivered and edited, the guys from the department of art direction managed to make a very good job, the movie was edited pretty well as the video part concerns me but the sound editing kinda lacked in essence. The soundtrack made entirely by Harry Gregson-Williams was actually very good; I enjoyed all the violins used and drums or tribal drums etc. The thing I'm having a biased view is the visual effects. The cinematography was pretty good except the part were the sand sap or slide in the temple where the captions of the action were kind of lame and the visual effects there were this second good and nice to watch and the next second you saw the CGI behind it... it was not that realistic and it kinda ruined that last part for me.
At the end the movie is entertaining, it's not awful like some people say (which they are not too many) and it's a fun ride in the theater. Now I guess there will be a second movie of Prince of Persia and what I hope is that it will be much more entertaining than this one.