History YMMV / PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime

* StrangledByTheRedString: Dastan and Tamina have the whole movie to slowly bond with each other, get into playful arguments and display plenty of BelligerentSexualTension. This seems to be one of the good things as their chemistry and the build up feels natural,... But their FirstKiss comes at the ''worst'' possible time. Right after violently dispatching the BigBad's [[TheDragon dragon]].

* MostAnnoyingSound: The guard who tells you how to activate the defense mechanism. See "NoIndoorVoice[=/=]UnexplainedAccent" in the Video Game tab.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Given that King Sharaman apparently spends most of his time drinking, enjoying the company of his wives and studying religious scripture, how ''[[TheGoodKing good]]'' of a King is he really? [[spoiler: Considering that Nizam is implied to have always been the true power behind the throne, even though he's evil, how badly would he have ruled the Empire, when he's been basically doing that for ''decades?!'']]

* NeedsMoreLove: If nothing else the actors all do a fine job throughout the film, most of the stunts are preformed in a fairly believable manner, and the story is very faithful to the source material (having been written by the man behind the game).

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Not only does Nizam have no regrets in murdering close family and hiring an entire group of [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]], but he wants to rewind time so that an act he did as a kid (saving his brother from a lion) never happened and he would be the king from the beginning. He's willing to wipe the only kind action he's ever done from history. That's a whole new level of wrong.]]

* NeedsMoreLove: If nothing else the actors all do a fine job throughout the film. And most of the stunts are preformed in a fairly believable manner.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:[[MenAretheExpendableGender The viewer might buy that the hero's brothers are killed off.]] [[ForegoneConclusion However, when you see his love interest falling to her death, you know the Sands of Time will somehow rewind time at the end of the movie to undo her death]].]] This also applies, in part, to the game.

!!The Game provides examples of:

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[MenAretheExpendableGender The viewer might buy that the hero's brothers are killed off.]] [[ForegoneConclusion However, when you see his love interest falling to her death, you know the Sands of Time will somehow rewind time at the end of the movie to undo her death]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Given that King Sharaman apparently spends most of his time drinking, enjoying the company of his wives and studying religious scripture, how ''[[TheGoodKing good]]'' of a King is he really? [[spoiler: Considering that Nizam is implied to have always been the true power behind the throne, even though he's evil, how badly would he have ruled the Empire, when he's been basically doing that for ''decades?!'']]
* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Not only does Nizam have no regrets in murdering close family and hiring an entire group of [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]], but he wants to rewind time so that an act he did as a kid (saving his brother from a lion) never happened and he would be the king from the beginning. He's willing to wipe the only kind action he's ever done from history. That's a whole new level of wrong.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Seso.
** Sheik Amar also completely steals whatever scene he's in.
* GameBreaker: Except for the aforementioned enemies that are immune to it (knocking the Prince down when he attempt it,) vault attacks are ''very'' overpowered, often knocking down enemies in only two hits. And even with the two immune enemies, if you're next to a wall, you can pull it off anyway by vaulting off of the wall instead of the enemy.

* IronWoobie: Dastan.

* AntiClimaxBoss: The Vizier isn't nearly as challenging as the platforming, the puzzling and the fighting done throughout the rest of the game.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: The general consensus is that ''Prince of Persia'' is the best (or at least the least bad) video game film adaptation ever released by mainstream Hollywood. This is usually followed by the caveat that this is not exactly a high standard to meet.

* AntiClimaxBoss: The Vizier isn't nearly as challenging as the platorming, the puzzling and the fighting done throughout the rest of the game.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: As the most financially successful ($335M) and one of the highest-rated (36% RottenTomatoes, 50 on Metacritic) video game movies ever made, it's in the running to avert this trope.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[MenAretheExpendableGender The viewer might buy that the hero's brothers are killed off]], [[ForegoneConclusion however when you see his love interest falling to her death, you know the Sands of Time will somehow rewind time at the end of the movie to undo her death]].
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: as the most financially successful ($335M) and one of the highest-rated (36% RottenTomatoes, 50 on Metacritic) video game movies ever made, it's in the running to avert this trope. YourMileageMayVary as to whether it actually ''succeed''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: A superpower is maneuvered into launching an invasion of a sovereign Middle Eastern nation to search for [[spoiler:non-existent]] weapons that they fear will be sold to their enemies. [[spoiler:Turns out the evidence was fabricated by a villain who was spoiling for war]]. There's also a sympathetic band of proto-libertarians who hide out in the wilderness to escape taxation and government control.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:The Prince gives his life to prove to his brother that the Dagger is real and would work, assuming said brother would rewind to save him. It works. Then the uncle comes in and promptly kills said brother.]]
** Done earlier [[spoiler:in the exact same way with his other brother, who is just starting to believe Dastan... and then gets shot several times in the chest.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: A superpower is maneuvered into launching an invasion of a sovereign Middle Eastern nation to search for [[spoiler:non-existent]] weapons that they fear will be sold to their enemies. [[spoiler:Turns out the evidence was fabricated by a villain who was spoiling for war.]] There's also a sympathetic band of proto-libertarians who hide out in the wilderness to escape taxation and government control.