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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThis is what a videogame movie looks like now.
- 70Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondMixing old-fashioned content and state of the art effects, this Jerry Bruckheimer production trades ‘pirates' for ‘princes' to revive the swashbuckling, sword fighting spirit of the sort Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn specialized.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettA handsome, fast-paced and innocuous adventure that's easy to take but lacks epic scale.
- 63Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreA ditzy film that offers more evidence that good actors, good action and one-liners don’t solve the one thing missing in every movie video game adaptation – a story that makes sense.
- 60VarietyVarietyBruckheimer's passably enjoyable, antiquity-themed epic should satisfy its young male core demographic well enough, but won't connect with other auds on the level of Bruckheimer's "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
- 60EmpireEmpireIts restraint might put off thrill-seekers, but if you can endure the wooden dialogue and sloppy exposition, it musters the entertainment quotient of a middle-order Harry Potter.
- 50Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerYet Newell, he of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," is ill-suited to steward such sword-and-sandals adventure, his direction--while slightly eschewing modern genre practitioners’ penchant for slicing-and-dicing skirmishes into visual incoherence--is too pedestrian and partial to clumsy slow-mo effects to truly energize the story.
- 50Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe audience should be given game controllers upon entering the theater. It wouldn't mean the film would make any more sense, but at least you'd feel like you had some say in the matter.
- 40The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyPrince of Persia is meant purely as light entertainment, but the way it draws on layers of junk is depressing.
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichA Jerry Bruckheimer–produced video-game adaptation--it has to be good, doesn’t it? (Ya, sarcasm.)