Characters/Actors: Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal), Tamina (Gemma Atherton), Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, etc.
In ancient Persia (what is now Iran), the king is so impressed by the brave boldness of a young peasant orphan boy that he adopts the lad. A decade or more later, the adopted prince leads an invasion on a peaceful rival city reputed to have a cache of knives. The city is easily conquered, but Dastan unwittingly comes to possession of a dagger which can enable its wielder to travel backwards in time and to potentially change history. Soon afterward, Dastan's older, noble-blooded brother (by Dastan's adoption if not by blood), first in line to succeed the king; bestows on Dastan a gift to give to the king which has a deadly poison. When the poison kills the king, Dastan is blamed for the assassination, and he flees with Tamina a beautiful queen or princess of the fallen city (0ne-time James Bond girl Gemma Atherton). At first the two don't get along very well, but they eventually fall for each other. Tamina reveals to Dastan that in the wrong hands the "sacred dagger" could allow an evil man to conquer or destroy the world. The king's jealous brother (Ben Kingsley) is the potential evil man who it is necessary to keep the dagger away from. By the director of such films as: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "Donnie Brasco",etc. Similar to "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Not the greatest, but a fun, action-packed summer diversion.
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