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Monday, 15 May 2006 03:52 Last Updated on Monday, 15 May 2006 03:52 Written by Hoboken 0 Comments

Based on the 2003 video game of the same and starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan, Gemma Arterton as Princess Tamina and Ben Kingsley as Nizam. It was directed by Mike Newell and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

I was a little unsure about Jake playing a macho character though. You know, cause of the whole Brokeback Mountain thing. He actually does resemble the Video Game character however and has a "Persian-ish" kind of look so maybe it was a good choice? Well as it turns out he didn't do such a bad job.

Gemma Arterton as Princess Tamina plays a very good heroine and I expect bigger and better things for her in the future. 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 glad he still gets decent parts in movies.

This film is exactly what you think 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. It was funny, action packed and cheesy in just the right amount to make it so very Disney. 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.

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. I mean it's Disney. Happy endings are compulsory. 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 want to do.

The bad guys in this case 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 originated from. So um My bad.

Thought that little piece of trivia was worth mentioning. 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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