MacGyver a.k.a. Prince of Persia

CAUTION! SPOILER! DO NOT READ IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH PRINCE OF PERSIA!

Movies can be incredibly badly made. Even to the extent where you constantly questions yourself why you spent $x on this ticket to be able to sit there in this "comfi" chair, munch on popcorn that you smuggled into the theater, already popped (just because we are all cheap), slurp on a frozen coke, which costed $x. All that just so you end up labelling yourself as a hater of this movie and ... well, hate every minute of it???

Note, for the ultimate "hating experience" it is essential that everyone around you knows just how much you hate the movie. In case that's too much work just fall asleep, which can be quite the indicator of how exciting this movie truly is.

Prince of Persia (along with Ironman 2) is exactly one of those movies.

1. Everyone raves on about how "hot" the actress is, when she is not. At first one might get distracted at that hole between her lips and how fakely she closes her lips (--> botox??). Eventually that subsides and one realizes how annoying her accent and tone of voice really is.
2. Jake Gyllenhaal ... well. Epic fail in trying to look hot. Anyhow, a lot of the time he just plainly reminded me of MacGyver (who was able to "make condoms out of plastic bags" - that he found in the wilderness, between trees, when he was actually cut off from civilization and no plastic bags should, could and would be there. BUT nooo *angelic voice* there he found a plastic bag.....), because there was no way he could escape from the people he was hunted down by, but NO, in the last second of the last minute he was able to *angelic voice* flyyyy acroooosss this humungous gap and saaavee himselfffffffff. Really, all this while one could see that he was being pulled around my "invisible" ropes ?! *yawn*
   
3. The set was terrible. It was extremely obvious that this was a set, much like in the Bold and the Beautiful, where you can see that the plants are plastic and the landscape/ocean view is nothing but a picture.
   
4. Jake Gyllenhaal is supposed to do something i.e. press some button or anyone for that matter is supposed to do something and instead of cutting to the chase while they still can (before the enemies crop up again), they have a 5 minute discussion about the pro's and con's and what they will do later and how much they will miss this and that person and what's for lunch. Very annoying!
5. Jake and the princess (Mrs. Hottie-whos-actually-not-that-hot) want to kiss throughout the movie and always pretend to; move their heads towards each other in the weirdest way (a failed attempt at portraying passion???!) and end up running off, instead of finishing up the kiss and getting a room!
6. Finally in the end, Jakes ground is falling beneath him, so he's busy enough to make sure he stays alive in the gushing sands a.k.a. ground beneath him. But noooooo of courseeee he needs to save the princess and kiss her (review point 4. for clarification), obviously save himself, stop his brother and ideally kill him in the process and reclaim this dagger that his brother is wiggling around and planning to abuse. Like really ??? COME ON! - Reminds me of karate movies where all the enemies conveniently present themselves one by one, just so the karate person can kill them.
   

All in all. Aiyoo. Such cheesy attempts to make a good movie and build suspense. It wasn't even funny anymore, just plain annoying.

Verdict: EPIC FAIL!!!