Archive for June, 2010

What can I say about this movie? WOW! That’s the best word to describe the movie.

Watch it with my wife to celebrate our 3rd Anniversary, I didn’t realize that we’re watching on the opening day of the movie. I didn’t tell my wife that the movie was from a game and that I’ve played the game before because she would ask me lots of question while watching the movie.

Prince of Persia “The Sands of Time”

Based on a game with the same name, it still keep some of the game element with the realistic touch. It started by showing a bit of history on the Persian empire and I’m not sure whether the history in that movie true or not (very bad in history).

Anyway, this Persian King got a brother and 2 sons. One day he took a street urchin at the marketplace as one of his prince after he saw something about that boy at that time. So he became the 3rd prince of the Persian King and his name is Dastan (acted by Jake Gyllenhaal).

Fifteen years later, the brothers lead the Persia army in an attack on the sacred city of Alamut, under the assumption that the city’s people are selling weapons to their enemies. Prince Dastan without the permission of his elder brother ambushed the city early in the morning before his elder brothers wanted to start their invasion because he are against the attack and do not want to have the serious bloodshed on both party.

While he was attacking the city and the Persian army came in later, he bump into a guy that carries the mystical dagger that can manipulate time using the “Sands of Time”, after fought with that guy, he took the dagger without knowing about the power of the dagger.

Alamut falls to the Persian and Princess Tamina (acted by Gemma Arterton) is captured. After that his father came, his elder brother gave a robe to Dastan to be presented to their father as a gift without knowing that the robe was poisoned and the king died after he put on the robe. So he ran with Princess Tamina and the whole Persian Empire are looking for him for the King’s death.

He accidentally got to know about the dagger’s power when he got into a fight with Princess Tamina that wanted to kill him and take back the dagger. After few times he used the power, then he realized it. The journey started after that.

Later he finds out about his uncle’s plan to change the history. He makes friend with a group of merchant-bandits from the Valley of Slaves that wanted to catch them for the rewards but later helps them to get back the dagger. Prince Dastan’s 2nd brother being killed by assassins (Hassansin) that being sent by their uncle, Nizam and the 1st brother is killed by Nizam himself.

I think I’ve already tell the whole story. I think I better stop until here. Anyway, there’s happy ending and Prince Dastan will get marry to Princess Tamina. Just go and watch the movie.

Summary

The movie was one of the best movie this year so far. Mixture of action, romance and humor makes this movie a very nice movie to watch with your love ones, especially. Not much of smooching and stuff, so it OK. The cast are amazing, Jake Gyllenhaal as my wife would say, very handsome and charming and Gemma Arterton has this sophisticated and charming sweet look. The CG are amazing too, combining with the stunt adapted from the game, it was totally cool. My wife enjoyed the movie and it is hard for her to enjoy a movie that I like.

Go and watch, you won’t regret. I’ll give 4.5 stars out of 5 stars.