You got Video Game in my movie!

Rating: 5/10 (21 September 2010)

You got movie in my video Game!
Unlike Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, the two things are not great together!
Okay, well, we get the predictable plot that holds together the action sequences, and did anyone doubt that Sir Ben Kingsley wasn't going to be the bad guy the minute we knew he was in this movie..."Dammit, I played GHandi! I won an Oscar! I don't need to be doing this Video-Game Crap!"
Has some fun action sequences and characters who have been so "Disneyed" down we don't care about them... Seriously, Disney, would it kill you to have the hot babe leading lady show a little leg?
The characters are all from "Cliche's R Us". Of course, the noble knife thrower would side with the Prince. And the Princess would fall in love with him and all the other stuff you expect to happen in a video game if you found the cheats...
A point on the plot. Besides the fact it has a less than subtle political metaphor - a war started on the premise of weapons that didn't exist. Was Ben Kingsley playing Ancient Dick Cheney? On top of that, it didn't make any sense. If the master plan was to get the dagger to plunge into the sands of time, why go through this whole rigamaroll of killing the king if your plan was to go back in time and kill him anyway? Why not just get the Hassansins to steal the dagger for you, and then infiltrate the city yourself when no one was watching. Why do a war and a whole complicated kill the king and frame his son who happens to have the one thing you need to make your plot work?