![]() ![]() "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" has been designed and costumed with palpable admiration for Persian architecture and culture, but the King Arthur casting makes it all seem backhanded. Forty-seven years after 20th Century Fox's porcelain "Cleopatra," superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer rockets the tradition of English-accented actors as the shorthand for nobility and heroism into an absurd new dimension. But the unbearable whiteness of this film isn't especially surprising or offensive, just depressingly lazy and unimaginative. ![]() ![]() All the major players in this adventure epic are white and sport British accents. The only people in "Prince of Persia" who might actually be mistaken for Persian appear about halfway in, astride galloping ostriches. ![]()
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