Is it just me or does Jake Gyllenhaal look like juiced up Charlie Sheen spoofing Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo character in Hot Shots Part Deux?
They showed this tonight before the Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game (Cowboys 20-16!). You know — maybe if this was his first film after October Sky, but between his Rendition whininess and being boogered by Heath Ledger (and traveling across the country for more — WTF?!?) this just seems like a train wreck waiting to happen. Why Jake Gyllenhaal why?
+JMJ+
There are too many things wrong with this that I don’t even want to start listing them all . . .
Indeed – this looks like a terrible, terrible movie.
And whose brilliant casting decision was this? Not to get overly culturally sensitive and PC and whatnot, but some casting director saw the title “Prince of Persia,” and decided to go with Donnie Darko? Could they have found someone decidedly more non-”Persian?” John Wayne in his Genghis Khan make-up was less ridiculous than this.
You said it, Jake. Apparently if you want to set a movie in Persia, just hire a bunch of white actors and make them all speak in English accents. I can see the Producer now: “English is foreign, right? Eh, close enough.”
I think Hollywood is afraid of gathering too many Persians in one place. Racists.
This will be one of those check your brain at the door movies but my better half is excited she loves a bit of mindless escapism and swashbuckling. I will say in defense of the studio that Jake really does look the part from the game.
+JMJ+
Upon reflection, I say that the sad thing is that I could have predicted this. After Orlando Bloom got cast in Troy, Kingdom of Heaven and all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the next logical step for casting directors of epic blockbusters (who don’t want to seem too predictable) was to go knocking at Jake Gyllenhaal’s door.
I found myself strangly drawn into this…I don’t know why….I mean its BRUCKHEIMER! But but GYLLENHALL…arghh! So awful yet yet yet….Maybe Jake is still trying to put Brokeback in his past by getting buff with a bimbo in a big he man action flick?
Gemma Arterton looks like the victim of a bad tan job rather than an actual Persian. And what accent is that?