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Any lingering questions about why Prince of Persia didn't swashbuckle its way to the top of summer box office charts are put quickly and silently to rest after about the fifth minute of the film. I must admit to having a miniscule spot of hope for the film - I love a good actioner; I like to see Jake getting bigger parts - but early on in Prince of Persia, nothing seems to be working correctly, and by the time-travel part comes around at the half-hour mark, I found myself investigating the curvature of my ceiling and thinking about the chores I needed to get done the next day.

Prince of Persia is an epic fail of a movie, a big-budget debacle that neither offers campy fun nor legitimate entertainment. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Mike Newell throw all the bells and whistles they can at us in attempts to engage - slow-mo effects, whiz-bang CGI, Crouching Tiger-esque chase sequences, chicks in lacy tight tops - but the visual cacophony of Prince of Persia simply becomes exhausting after a while. It's no fun.

The story goes a little something like this: Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) was once a Persian orphan whose nobility on the streets inspired the king to adopt him and make him his own son. But as a strapping young man, Dastan watches his adopted father die in front of him - a robe he'd been given turned out to be poisoned - and because of evildoings within the king's cadre, Dastan is framed for the crime, forcing him to flee and become prime suspect for his brother (Richard Coyle) and the devious Nizam (Ben Kingsley).

See, it just so happened that as Jake was leaving town, he picked up a knife that has the power to take its wielder back in time, and that's all that Nizam wanted in the first place. Yeah. A time-traveling knife. Yup. I'm all for dumb-Hollywood good times, but Prince of Persia is completely D.O.A. I wish the film's screenwriters could fashion me a time-traveling remote control so I could go back in time and watch something else instead.

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