Review of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) by Mpreviews — 25 Jul 2019

Pros:

-Really good music.

-Solid Action -Pretty good characters, and the actor’s are doing a good job portraying them. -When they do actually use the time travel dagger, the visuals on display are pretty spectacular. -The visual design andPros:

-Really good music.

-Solid Action.

-Pretty good characters, and the actor’s are doing a good job portraying them.

-When they do actually use the time travel dagger, the visuals on display are pretty spectacular.

-The visual design and production values in general are pretty good. Cons:

-Film isn’t particularly mind blowing. Like if you took out the Prince of Persia name this would most likely just be another generic live action Disney film. -There was some wasted potential with the time traveling dagger. If they abandoned the need for the thing to have some kind of fuel to use it’s powers and went for something similar to Edge of Tomorrow where each time the characters screw up during their quest they just go back and try again until they get it right, this could have been the first movie based on a video game property that actually manages to replicate the feeling of playing a video game. But alas, they didn’t do that.

Final verdict: Overall, I enjoyed Sands of Time, but I can’t help but notice the wasted potential here. This movie was so close to being the first video game movie that actually manages to replicate the feeling of playing the video game it’s based on, but they sacrificed that in favor of making a relatively standard live action Disney film from the early 2010’s. Still the music, visuals, characters, and action all still make this a decent flick that’s worth checking out if you are interested, and it still stands above most other video game film adaptations.