Did not live up to expectations

Rating: 3/10 (2 June 2010)

On Friday night I went and saw the Prince of Persia movie with my friend. When I first had learned of the production of the video game based movie I was more then excited to see it. However after 15 min of the movie I quickly wanted to leave the theaters. The movie in my opinion was nothing like the game. The story used the sand dagger and sands of time element, but that is it. It is as if writers made up their own story, but using the sands of time concept.
I wasn't really concerned so much with the casting as I was with how horrible it followed the game's story. Though I can say I'm no really fair about this movie expecting a high standard for this kind of movie. I was prejudice about it before I walked into the theater. I already had it set in my mind that the movie was going to be terrible before I saw it, but I still hold to my beliefs that it was terrible.
One of the biggest disappointments was that there were no sand monsters. Another disappointment was the fact that they make the hero prince seem like a pathetic orphan, trying to prove himself to the whole world. Which is to say that this is an over used story plot turned cliché. And finally the other major disappointment was the seriously mis-timed kissing scene. The writer decided that it would make more sense to have the hero and his maiden kiss with only a few minutes to save the world. As well as many more minor disappointments through-out the entire movie.
However there was on thing that I thought was good, that being the ending. The ending where the hero prince goes back in time to the beginning stayed pretty true to the game's story line. Overall I think movie sucked and in no way lived up to expectation. I would give this movie a 3 out of 10, but would advise seeing it for yourself, so you can understand where I coming from.