5 Video Game Movie Adaptations That Totally Sucked
2. Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
Shame on you Bruckheimer. Shame on you for taking a perfectly good plot, served on a platter, and ruining it with fake British accents. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was the first in the prince of Persia series (the modern one anyway). It represented what many games struggle to achieve even today. A well balanced plot, amazing graphics that was way beyond its time and well-crafted characters. On hindsight, its ridiculous that the movie took away critical parts of the game and put in absolutely irrelevant ones, such as the Merchant and Hassassin scenes. The movie adaptation followed a more political inspired plot where much of the emphasis was on the evil uncle wanting to rewind time all the way back to when he saved his brothers (and current king) life, and instead manipulate events so that he becomes ruler. Now this seems to be a reasonable plotexcept when you compare it to the game where the evil vizier tricked the young prince into unleashing the sands by stabbing the dagger into the hourglass, turning everyone including his father into modern-day equivalent zombies. In fact, the prince himself has to kill his father and his subjects in one part of the game. So it seems like good ol Jerry decided to take that one part of the game and turn it into a movie. Which is the same as the other games on the list. It completely misses the journey. The game in all its glory, showed how the young prince had been naïve in his choices and in his thirst for power, foolishly listened to the vizier. The journey involved you growing with the prince as he recited his anecdotes to the gamer. It also had a beautiful love story with Farah, the female protagonist. She incidentally made a far greater damsel in distress than Gemma Arterton, whose performance was lacklustre. While the movie did wow movie-gooers with its hi-fi effects, stunts, soundtrack and lets not forget Jake Gyllenhaals body, it failed to wow gamers. It failed because it didnt stay true to the one thing gamers look for when they watch their favourite game being turned into movies. The storyline.