Set in ancient Persia, which looks like Lawrence of Arabia crossed with a Christmas pageant designed by Baz Luhrman, most of the action revolves around Dastan, the adopted son of a murdered king and his attempts to clear his name. The stakes are huge if the super villain, Nizam, played with a kind of campy-glee by Ben Kingsley, gets his way, it means nothing less than the end of the world. Basically it’s a wronged-hero chase plot.
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Prince of Persia seems less like a movie designed to tell a certain story but a laundry list of in-vogue visual licks.īased on the videogame created by Mechner, the story is messy, and complicated and that’s probably why the action so frequently grinds to a halt so characters can take the time to explain what’s going on. In other words the 'free-run’ scene seems an obligatory bit of business these days in action movies it's like the movie's producers Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer were keen to make sure to use all the fashionable action beats. Still, the scene, in which the movies hero, Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal), has to jump and leap and swing about over roofs and streets, seems so 'seen before’ its hardly any fun at all. As directed by English filmmaker Mike Newell ( Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco) it’s athletic, inventive and even humorous (in the way, say the Indiana Jones films use wit to take the nastiness out of their violent gags). There’s a long 'free-run’ sequence in this mega budget fantasy too and in a way it sums up why the whole movie seems so tired and lifeless. Part of what they were about was the idea that Bourne and Bond were prepared to improvise these guys could use their immediate environment to catch the bad guy instead of relying on a gadget or a gun. Or what about the similar full-tilt chase across the roof tops in the last Bourne film? These were expert cinema action sequences brilliantly attenuated and carefully choreographed. Remember the 'free-run’ action scene in the 2006 Casino Royale? That’s where Bond pursued an elastically limbed baddie through a construction site.
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