They just seem like they’d fit better in another medium - and they actually do, as the “Prince of Persia” video game on which the movie is based is regarded very highly by players and critics alike. The dialogue and plot structure are not that bad. Frankly, it seems harder for him to play a video-game level action stud than a man resisting the sexual advances of a captured, basically naked princess. Ironically, Gyllenhaal seems appropriately cast for some of these scenes toward the beginning, because his character is supposed to start out completely uninterested in the attractive princess with whom he has been banished from the kingdom. All of the other actors look like they’re in this movie ironically, and speak in nonsensical English accents that make about as much sense as the casting of Jake Gyllenhaal (“Brokeback Mountain”) as an intimidating, overly masculine warlord.Īs awkward as it is to see Gyllenhaal try to play any kind of elite warrior, swinging from rooftop to rooftop, it is ten times more excruciating to see his attempts at love scenes with Tamina, the gorgeous princess of Alamut, played by Gemma Arterton (“Quantum of Solace”). The only intelligent casting decision in the film seems to be Sir Ben Kingsley (“Shutter Island”) as a corrupted member of the Persian nobility and brother to the King (who dies, ridiculously, from putting on a poisoned cloak that causes him to spontaneously combust). “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” finds yet another way to incorporate this kind of ending, but first, it attempts to answer the age old question: How many white actors can you cast in a movie about non-white people?
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