Movie - Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

We all know there a dozens of these types of epic adventure films so let’s cut straight to the story.Orphan boy get’s noticed by the King, in the days where the king just roamed the streets with little more than a couple of staff and didn’t feel the need for millions of pounds worth of security to follow. Boy gets adopted and therefore becomes a prince, in all but royal blood.As an adult, he goes into battle to secure another land only to realise something is amiss and there is no reason to invade. Alas there are no weapons of mass destruction, so to speak.Instead, the Prince of Persia, Daston (Jake Gyllenhaal), discovers a mystical dagger which contains magical sand and therefore can turn back time. Obviously.But all in all it’s a good old fashioned epic, although actually only 116 minutes long. The twist is the King is murdered and Daston is the prime suspect, having been set-up, but by who? In the meantime he and the beautiful princess, as is de rigueur in these flicks, set up about keeping the dagger from the wrong evil hands whilst proving his innocence.Ben Kingsley, of the category ‘Doesn’t Put His Name To A Bad Film' category also stars, alas as a baddie.An inoffensive movie to escape to and under 2 hours.7/10 Smile Factor 8/10[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgEt-4L3fKQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1]