Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Watched the movie yesterday and it was good. For the adventure and the swashbuckling followers this movie is a good one but if you are more on the story side I would say that it is simple same story of family rivalry and power grabbing.

The story revolves about The Dagger of Time that turns back time. It enables the holder to go back a few minutes in time thus enabling one to change that moment to one's advantage. The story is set on the reign of King Sharaman of Peria during the 6th century. The main character, Prince Dastan(played by Jake Gyllenhaal) was an orphaned boy that was adopted by King Sharaman after an incident in the market place. Dastan's courage to defend a friend against the King's guards impress the king and it ended up Dastan being adopted by the King making him Prince of Persia with "no royal blood and no eye for the throne."

After the short introduction, the movie starts with Prince Tus, the next heir to the throne, Prince Garsiv and Nizam(the kings brother and adviser) on the way to Alamut, a known Holy city, to conquer it due to the reports of the city supplying arms to Persia's enemies. The king's commands was not to harm Alamut because it is holy and neutral city. Tus asks his brother and Nizam if they should attack but awaits what Prince Dastan's opinion. Dastan grew up to be a courageous man and led a group in the Persian army. Dastan reminded Tus of their father's command and he said that the weapons might be planted but in the end the advice from Garsiv and Nizam prevailed. Dastan requested that he lead the first attack then but was told that he was too young for this. The attack was to be made at dawn.

Hard headed as he is, Dastan went to do a backdoor attack on the city by entering it before dawn. Together with Bis and his friends they were able to enter and open one of the city's gates, signaled it to Tus and Garsiv's men and entered the city without much damage. Meanwhile the head of Alamut, Princess Tamina(played by Gemma Artenton), prayed to the Gods. In there last resort Tamina ordered one of Alamut's guard to bring to safety Alamut's Dagger of Time. The guard was accidentally killed by Dastan and was able to get hold of the dagger. The news reached the king but the king was furious of what Tus did. The king goes to Alamut and ask Tus to give him evidence of Alamut's treachery.

Tus busied himself looking for the weapons and ask favor from Dastan present to the king Alamut's praying shroud. The king announce that the proposed marriage of Princess Tamina to Tus to unite their empires was not to push through but instead Princess Tamina will be wed to Dastan. Dastan was taken aback and was speechless for sometime. To interrupt the scene Dastan presented the praying shroud to the king but upon wearing it the king was burned and killed. Dastan doesn't know why and he was accused of killing the king. He ran to save himself and he ended up running with Princess Tamina. From there the story brings you to the adventure and the twist of the movie.

 The movie also mentions about destiny being a connection between two time periods. But in the end as the story goes destiny is what we chose it to be rather than something that one must follow even if it means losing someone that you love. Destiny is a choice that only  you and me can make.