Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

I'm apprehensive to give this a totally bad grade because I have a soft spot for Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton, but this movie is simply a load of crap. What is Ben Kingsley's career plan? For the last 10 years he's been in crap after crap after crap. I don't understand the choices of a once-respected Oscar winner. And what's up with Gyllenhaal's voice? For the first half of the movie, I thought it was dubbed. Every shot in this film is cheap and the music is generic. It's of the same cloth as Pirates of the Caribbean and The Mummy with a sprinkling of Indiana Jones. The action sequences are incomprehensible messes and the story is inane. I admire Gyllenhaal's physicality (he added 6 pounds of muscle for the role), but other than appreciating the greatness of a fine and growing actor, there is nothing else to praise in this cash-grab of a movie. It cost $200m, and it looks like it cost $10m.

F