Surprisingly Entertaining

A young Persian prince comes into possession of a mystical dagger is forced to work with a rival princess in order to prevent the destruction of the world.

Prince of Persia is a humorous, action packed, lusciously filmed movie that managed to keep my interest in spite of the predictable storyline. If it weren't for a couple of glaring problems I would have been happy to give this movie a solid 7 out of 10.

I enjoyed the sexual tension between Dustan and Tamina but the romantic moment near the climax of the movie was out of place. I also really had fun with Alfred Molina's character.

One of the issues I have with Prince of Persia is how physically weak Tamina is. I don't need a Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 type physique but as guardian to the dagger I expected Tamina to have some kind of skills in protecting it. Another thing I didn't like was the Deux Ex Machina for wrapping up the plot which negates the events of the movie prior to that point.

Still, I had a lot of fun watching most of Prince of Persia. A decent movie to escape the summer heat.

6/10