Directed by Mike Newell, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. This movie is based on the 2003 video game of the same title and starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan, Gemma Arterton as Princess Tamina and Ben Kingsley as Nizam.
I was a bit unsure about Jake playing a macho character though. He does bare a resemblance the Video Game character however and has a "Persian-ish" kind of look so maybe it was a good pick. You know, cause of the whole Brokeback Mountain thing. I was a little iffy. Well as it turns out he didn't do such a bad job.
I predict bigger and better things for Gemma Arterton in the future. She plays Princess Tamina well and was a very good heroine. Plus she's really cute. Ben Kingsley is making a bit of a come back and after "A Sound of Thunder" I'm sure he's relieved he still gets decent characters in movies.
The general plot of the movie is that a mystical dagger that contains the sands of time has the power to reverse time. No Delorean, no 1.21 gigawatts, no 88 MPH. Doc brown didn't need all that apparently. It was funny, action packed and cheesy in just the right doses to make it so very Disney. This film is precisely what you expect it'll be. If I didn't know anything about who distributed and produced it I would still say Disney and Bruckheimer five minutes into the movie.
I mean it's Disney. Happy endings are staple. None of that bad guys get away with it at the end kind of stuff. Like most time travel movies though you some how know, especially since its Disney, that if any of the lead characters die, they might just come back to life through some clever time travel. None of that bad guys get away with it at the end kind of stuff. So thus you might be able to guess the ending once you find out what exactly it is the bad guys in this film are up to.
The bad guys in this scenario are the Hassansins. I know what you're thinking. Isn't that just assasins with a H? I actually thought it was Hollywood playing on stereotypes again. Like take a middle eastern sounding name like Hassan combine it with a scary proffession like assasins and you get Hassansins! Like Mustafa + Savages= Mustavages, or Anwar + Warriors = Anwarriors or Ali + Gangster = uh? Ali G? Oh I lost it on the last one. Thats what I thought it was. Lets face it, it wouldn't be the first time right? It turns out however that "Hashshashins" were the Persian designation of the Nizari branch of the Ismaili Shia Muslims during the Middle Ages and is thought from which the word assassin came from. So um My bad.
Thought that little piece of trivia was worth stating. I would watch it again and that doesn't happen for many movies. It does its job as an entertaining action adventure while pleasing most of the fans of the video game i'm sure.
My movie review, rating 4/5
I was a bit unsure about Jake playing a macho character though. He does bare a resemblance the Video Game character however and has a "Persian-ish" kind of look so maybe it was a good pick. You know, cause of the whole Brokeback Mountain thing. I was a little iffy. Well as it turns out he didn't do such a bad job.
I predict bigger and better things for Gemma Arterton in the future. She plays Princess Tamina well and was a very good heroine. Plus she's really cute. Ben Kingsley is making a bit of a come back and after "A Sound of Thunder" I'm sure he's relieved he still gets decent characters in movies.
The general plot of the movie is that a mystical dagger that contains the sands of time has the power to reverse time. No Delorean, no 1.21 gigawatts, no 88 MPH. Doc brown didn't need all that apparently. It was funny, action packed and cheesy in just the right doses to make it so very Disney. This film is precisely what you expect it'll be. If I didn't know anything about who distributed and produced it I would still say Disney and Bruckheimer five minutes into the movie.
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I mean it's Disney. Happy endings are staple. None of that bad guys get away with it at the end kind of stuff. Like most time travel movies though you some how know, especially since its Disney, that if any of the lead characters die, they might just come back to life through some clever time travel. None of that bad guys get away with it at the end kind of stuff. So thus you might be able to guess the ending once you find out what exactly it is the bad guys in this film are up to.
The bad guys in this scenario are the Hassansins. I know what you're thinking. Isn't that just assasins with a H? I actually thought it was Hollywood playing on stereotypes again. Like take a middle eastern sounding name like Hassan combine it with a scary proffession like assasins and you get Hassansins! Like Mustafa + Savages= Mustavages, or Anwar + Warriors = Anwarriors or Ali + Gangster = uh? Ali G? Oh I lost it on the last one. Thats what I thought it was. Lets face it, it wouldn't be the first time right? It turns out however that "Hashshashins" were the Persian designation of the Nizari branch of the Ismaili Shia Muslims during the Middle Ages and is thought from which the word assassin came from. So um My bad.
Thought that little piece of trivia was worth stating. I would watch it again and that doesn't happen for many movies. It does its job as an entertaining action adventure while pleasing most of the fans of the video game i'm sure.
My movie review, rating 4/5
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2 comments:
It was not the perfect movie but it was something that I would go and watch its sequel.Overall I enjoyed myself and I believe if you go open minded you will enjoy yourself too
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