Prince of Persia

This is a good movie. Not an excellent movie, but a fun movie. The characters are fairly likable, even if not everything they do always makes a whole lot of sense. The plot is coherent enough not to induce pain (thought you can't look too hard at it). The dialogue...is what it is, but is frequently enough intentionally funny that it works.

What makes this a good movie rather than a mediocre movie is the stunts. Visually, the way Dastan moves is just cool. There is a large amount of vicarious fantasy fulfillment going on here. Who doesn't want to be so agile they can blatantly ignore the law of gravity?

And that's where I'm going to stop, because Prince of Persia really won't bear much in the way of heavy analysis. It's a movie based on a video game. Don't overthink it--just go with it, and it's a wonderful ride.