Steven Chaitman wrote: "If you’re Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer, how do you go about finding your next “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise? Well, you start by keeping the whole cast in long hair and eyeliner only you relocate them to the desert. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a familiar swashbuckling adventure only transplanted to the Middle East and outfitted with turbans, swords with even bigger curves, snakes and lots and lots of sand."
It always seemed like it would be a fun popcorn movie with no soul at best. At the very least, this will hopefully help other video game movies be better. Similar to what Blade and Spiderman 1 did to comic movies.