I think the accent is pretty good, TBH. I'm glad they've gone with British accents for this. I was afraid that we'd have the usual American wise-cracking.
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I didn't mind it, it's not the greatest film but most of the films I've seen of late were worse than this and whilst it's light on action it's easy going and the end payoff was decent. It might have worked better as a more action driven film with the Sands operating as they did in the games (possessing people) rather than it being The Persian Fugitive
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Wow. I would never had placed money at the beginning of the year of a film based on a computer game would top Clash of the Titans and A Ridley Scott movie but Prince of Persia delivers.
It's not an annoyingly historically accurate film set just before the story takes place like Robin Hood, and it delivers in both action and character portrayal (for an action movie) unlike Titans. In this I actually cared about the characters.
This is no brilliant film or anything, nowhere near Iron Man 2 but compared to a lot of recent blockbusters; this was good.
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I enjoyed PoP as well - Ben Kingsley's Pantomime villain was awesome, although it reminded me a bit of his woeful performance of the Hood from the Thunderbirds movie, minus the embarrassing kung-fu action.
The story was a little patchy in places though, didn't realize Jordan Mechner was responsible for it until the credit roll however.
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I was sorely disappointed by this, I just felt that it barely contained any of the atmosphere that made the Sands of Time and even the following games so wonderful.
When I think of Prince of Persia I think of Arabian Nights and a swashbuckling adventure. Imagery like this
But it appears that the people making this film forgot to actually PLAY THE GAME! but were too busy playing their complimentary copies of Assassins Creed. As it looked like this.
I didn't even spot a single nod to the games new or old
besides my geeky game loving outrage I actually felt the film was quite badly made, there was some rubbish CG and compositing that you don't see in many films nowadays, let alone a Disney Summer blockbuster! There was some of the worst editing I've seen in a long time too and the over use of motion effects/slowmo.
one of the worst bit of non action editing was the bit that went
"The evil assasins are one of my people, the guardians, courrpted and poisoned, this is how he knew of the dagger!"
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"However will we get to the temple, my uncle has finally dug out the tunnels with the help of his courrupted guardians and is on his way to the temple, there just isn't time!"
"It's ok prince, the guardians built secret passageways that only they knew off, but despite them revealing all of their secrets to your uncle, they have failed to remember there is one right here" *opens secret door*
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