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DP: Methinks you were too kind with the snarky headline. To really drive the point home, I would have gone with "I Know Orlando Bloom And Sir, You Are No...." Oy, does this look awful.

Wow. This looks so bad I can't believe it was made. The game hasn't been popular in more than five years, we are talking previous gen console here. At least the Mummy movies had the decency to throw in someone kinda brown rather than a bunch of folks with spray tans. Jake is an awful actor IMO. I have never liked his work. Every performance I see him in all I see is a bad wig and a blank stare. I think Disney might take a bath on this one.

The entire concept of making a movie based on a game (especially with today's astronomical costs), is not only out-dated, but insane.

The name brand means nothing; as tfresca pointed out, it's ANCIENT in terms of the gaming world. Furthermore, the producers of these movies have to be faithful in some way or another to the source material and in some cases are (like this one, I'm positive) contractually obligated to stick to many of the games plot-lines, not to mention most likely having input from whatever company owns the rights to the game. So instead of possibly creating something fresh and fun, they have to adhere to numerous lame guidelines, endless notes (from studios AND game execs).

When I worked at a major production company a few years back, one of the producers' there would have a cow on a daily basis trying to get the rights to every single hot game that came around. Of course we all knew too well that it takes like 3-5 years for the movie to actually come out -- a lifetime in gamer world, not to mention the fact that, oh, 95% of the world has never even HEARD of any of these titles.

There is no point to making movies based on these games. Especially at these costs. It's folly. It's always been folly; I won't name the countless failures. The only reason they're greenlit is because studio cheifs see the insane $$$ these games haul.

Maybe a few giant bombs will wake them up.

I dunno. Looks kinda hot to me. At least Gemma Arterton does. *shrug* I'll check it out.

Why even bother getting the rights from the video game when there is clearly nothing so original about it. A guy in sandals in the desert jumps around and sword fight. Call it "Dune Raider - The Tomb of Time" and VOILA.

That's putting the cart before the horse there, POP has like half a decade on Tomb Raider

Trfesca, THEY JUST PUT A NEW PRINCE OF PERSIA GAME OUT LAST YEAR! That's right. Last year. So Prince of Persia is still current. Hell, sorry folks, but IT'S PRINCE OF PERSIA! It's one of the longest running games in the history of gaming. Claiming that it's ancient in any way. Sort of states that you do not know gaming very well.

That aside, this movie looks fine for what it is. It's a kids movie with action in it. The little kids will eat this up, teenagers will dig it for their teenager reasons, and adults will bitch about it's tone or something. The adults will not keep the film from making some sheckels, but David will still emphatically imply that Disney will have to make so much to make such and such happen.

Sorry, but ANyONE who saw BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN knows that Jake G. can bring it when he has the right material. Which, it would appear, this is not.

Dietcock is right (whether he was being snarky or not). This kind of project is tailor-made for Orlando Bloom. The trailer above just makes me appreciate just how good Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz were with this sort of material. Say what you will about Bloom and Knightly, but they knew how to be romantic and dashing, and when to just step back and let Johnny Depp chew scenery for a minute or two. Gyllenhaal (and Maria Bello for that matter) are fine actors, but not everyone can do the gee-wiz adventure shtick.

The trailers feels more a like a series of shot from the side-kick than the main hero.

Jake's a terrific actor and, in my opinion, the sexiest guy in the movies, and he's been in four that I consider among the best of the decade: Donnie Darko, Lovely & Amazing, Brokeback, Zodiac.

That said, this looks atrocious. Every shot seems cribbed from Pirates, a Mummy movie, or National Treasure. And when are audiences going to finally stand up and reject ultra-fake CGI? How is it possible that studio movies both cost more and look worse than they ever have?

Wow. That looks awful. Did they even construct a set or was it all green screen?

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