Daily Mail:
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer goes for the same formula here that made a hit franchise out of Pirates Of The Caribbean.
Prince Of Persia, shot partly in Morocco and partly at exotic Pinewood Studios, is a fast-moving swashbuckler with an Arabian Nights flavour and the kind of athleticism that made Douglas Fairbanks a star in the silent era.
Jake Gyllenhaal, with heavy-metal rock star hair and a passable English accent to fit in with the Brit-dominated cast, plays Prince Dastan, an acrobatic street urchin who as a child was adopted into the Persian royal family by King Sharaman (Ronald Pickup) and raised beside the King's real sons (Richard Coyle and Toby Kebbell).
Imagine the charisma. The eyebrow raises. The undeniable presence… all in the form of a smooth, inanimate stone sitting on your desk. That’s right—Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, but as an actual pet rock.
Fans are practically begging Jim Carrey to dust off his Hawaiian shirt and talk out of his backside one more time in Ace Ventura 3!
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