Prince of Persia: Plot-childish cliches

Do you want to watch a two-hour game demo while you sit on the sofa and blow the air conditioner while you eat popcorn and drinks? Then watch "Prince of Persia". In addition, the pictures on the large screen are spectacular, the music is beautiful, the characters are hot, and every fight is flawless. What's even better is that you can always clear the level without any suspense! Sadly, I don't think real gamers would be interested in watching other people play or watching game demos. The real charm of video games lies in the suspense of whether they can pass the level and the player's sense of engagement. Others such as picture, sound, art design, and even the plot itself are all aids that help players feel "immersed in the scene" and better engage in the game. When the player is placed in the position of the audience and cannot participate in the game, the other auxiliary elements themselves lose their charm, and even their crude side is exposed. "Prince of Persia" is such a work that puts the game demo on the movie screen. Its simple and naive game-style plot lacks the narrative charm that the movie should have. The game-like pictures and cartoon characters only increase the audience's inability to participate in the game in person. estrangement. This massive game adaptation film finally could not get rid of the consistent fate of game adaptation. After the sands were settled, all that was left was computer synthesis and gorgeous scene display in the studio and the pose of the muscular man.

The story itself can be finished in one sentence: Dastan, an orphaned prince adopted by the king of Persia, discovered the secret of the Time Blade's ability to reverse time, and with the help of the Time Blade and its guardian princess Tamina, thwarted his uncle's usurpation of the throne. Conspiracy and marry the princess. If the film itself is a classic fairy tale that Disney dedicated to children, "the prince and the princess finally lived a happy life after a series of adventures and hardships", then the prophecies, religions, legends that appear in the film many times, especially The subtitles about fate that echo in the beginning and end are completely unnecessary and pretending to be deep. And the plot of the princes of Persia, because of their uncle's provocation, mistakenly believed that their neighbors possessed weapons of mass destruction aimed at Persia, and then attacked the neighboring countries in the name of searching for weapons, can not help but be reminiscent of the contemporary relationship between the United States and its old enemy Iran. Political entanglements (Persia is the ancient name of Iran). However, there is no deep meaning behind the film to make adult audiences smile. Whether it is intentional or unintentional political innuendo or the film's complaints about heavy taxes, it is vague and superfluous. Moreover, if it is said that this is a film made for adults, it is too underestimated the audience's IQ. All the burdens in the film can be seen in advance. The only thing that can be called suspense is that the real mastermind behind it is the king's brother Nizam rather than the big prince Tas. But the conspirator's look betrayed his identity prematurely, a bald, gloomy-eyed (and black eyeliner to accentuate the gloom), with a small black goatee, always dressed in black, there's no doubt that Uncle Wang is a dangerous role. Audiences won't be surprised when Dustan sees through his uncle's ruse.

As with the game, the fundamental purpose of the film's plot development is to keep showing new expensive scenes and justifications for great fights, captivating audiences with visual spectacle. But even if the story takes place in medieval Persia, there should be a lot of Middle Eastern style to appreciate, but neither the characters' costumes nor the scenes lack amazing imagination. Director Mike Neville's previous experience with "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" has led people to speculate that this "Prince of Persia" will have some Harry Potter style, but it is actually more like "Indiana Jones". Close, and finally the two sides seized the Hourglass Underground Palace of Time, which made people think it was the Holy Grail Underground Palace in "Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Holy Grail", and even the settings of the secret passages were surprisingly similar. In the action scenes, only Dastan can still be seen flying over the eaves and walls between the buildings. Any difference in height and width will not be difficult for the agile prince, but it is also more difficult to explain why almost every time he faces the royal pursuit. They are all invincible, but they are often crushed by the gangsters in street fights.

In such a dull film with bland plot and visual effects, only Jake Gyllenhaal's performance was a surprise. His shape and expression, especially his crooked mouth, a little silly and a little bad smile, are completely the incarnation of Disney-esque aesthetics. I really don't know how Disney managed to assimilate a melancholy actor into a live-action cartoon this time. Gemma Arterton's princess, by contrast, lacks life and doesn't even have the alluring beauty that the plot calls for.

The action scenes in the trailer, the desert vibes, and the saga genre itself all captivated me. But when I sat in the movie theater, I found that the condensed essence of a few minutes of trailers was stretched into two hours, and added to it was nothing new and cliché and bravado.

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