I am a huge fan of the Prince of Persia games. I played all of them including the original POP, PC version. I am a hardcore fan, and when I found out that the Prince of Persia movie was going to be made, I was over-whelmed!! They announced it in the summer of 2009 and from that time onwards, I was an year till this epic movie was released!

The story has changed slightly compared to the games. This time it’s about Prince Dustan’s – Our main hero- childhood. He was an orphan lurking around the streets, stealing food and always getting into trouble with the guards. One, the king was wandering around the streets of Persia, when he saw Dustan’s bravery when he saved his best friend’s life. He adopted him, and soon he was named the Prince of Persia. Compared to the game, the Prince was born into the Royal family. He then encounters a tragic event when his father dies. Little did he know it was his Uncle Nizam. He sets on a Journey to prove his innocence to Persia, with the beautiful Princess Tamia. She is the Guardian of the Dagger, but the Prince does not know this. When he realizes the Dagger’s power, he sets another journey to find more sand, so that he can reverse his father’s death. Then the movie continues with Drama, Action and Thrills.

They have integrated the game play from various Prince of Persia games onto the movie itself. The moves, the setting, the characters, they were all so nostalgic and awesome!! It felt like I was playing the game. On top of that the music was fantastic, it brought a Persian atmosphere to the cinema. Overall I loved this movie, i would recommend it to people who have played the game and for those who haven’t! The story, graphics, music and the actors they are all excellent!! Before watching the movie I thought Jake Gyllenhaal was a wrong choice to play the Prince, he didn’t seem fit for the role. But after watching, I have changed my mind, he was awesome!! He acted so well, and he looked truly fit to be a Persia Of Persia!!

The graphics were exellent, but unfortunally the movie wasn’t made for 3D. So it better of saving some money by buying a normal ticket. There isn’t hardly any “oo lemmi try and grab that” moment in this movie, which was a huge dissapointment since we watch a 3D movie purly for that reason. The scorpion looked prety realistic in some scenes and the movement of it seemed natural.
Medusa, looked like she was computer generated, the origianl one had more impact on the audience than this one, that’s my opinion. Throughout the whole movie the Kraken was built up to be this huge and fierce creature which even the Gods are afraid of, but when it was time to show it, it was truly pathetic and a waste of our time. It looked very ugly, it didn’t even look scary.

Acting- Sam Worthington (also acted in Avatar) did a really bad job in this movie. He had the same expression for every single emotion that came to him. When the people of Argon told him that he was a Demi-God, he had a bland and plain expression. When he said he wanted revenge, there was that same expression. After watching Avatar you would think that he would do a fantastic job at this role, but he failed.

So overall I would give this movie a 6/10. Simply because of the bad direction and acting.

So just to summarize this whole film:

There is a beautiful earth-like planet called Pandora and it withholds a valuable stone called unobtanium, which is worth $20 million per kilogram back on Earth. Parker Selfridge (Head of the mining operation) employs an army to make the Navi go away so that they can retrieve the stone. These Nava are human-like creatures whole live underneath the richest bed of unobtanium. Jake Sully a former marine, is recruited to Pandora as a replacement of his twin brother (who died in a mugging incident). So Jake has his own Avatar and runs of into the wild. He meets another Avatar called Neytiri, she helps him by bringing him back to the Hometree and trains him to become one of them. As Jake grows closer to Neytiri he slowly movies towards the Na’vi’s side. *SPOILERS* At the end he is on the Na’vi’s side and he helps them defeat the humans by recruiting all the other Na’vi’s from all over the Planet. After defeating the humans they are expelled from Pandora, while Jake and his closest co-workers remain. Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya leader. The film ends with Jake’s “soul” being transplanted into his Na’vi avatar.

The graphics in this movie were outstanding, i have never seen anything more realistic than this. Sometimes i even felt that the Na’vi were real and that the plants and the whole planet was real. The hair on their head seemed so real that you really couldn’t tell the difference between CGI and real life. When they show the plants and other creatures which live on Pandora you can see the detailed texture on each object especially when the scenes took place in the night (everything glows). This story is by far the most unique plot i have ever seen. The characters where introduced very nicely and as the movie goes on you grow more closer to the characters and find out a little bit more about them. Moving from real Jake to avatar Jake was really smooth when he was an avatar he seemed like a completely different person.

So overall i suggest you watch this movie in 3D! Everything from there language to the clothes they wear, they seemed like they exist. you felt like you were there! I enjoyed ever minute of this movie and i haven’t seen any other movie like this before. So go get your glasses on and enjoy

NikStars