Let’s be honest here. All video game movies suck.

Super Mario Brothers - Sucked.

Tomb Raider 1 & 2 - Sucked.

Street Fighter - Sucked. Both times.

Heck, one of the worst movies ever on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is based on an obscure Game Boy Advanced game. Even the best example of a video game adaptation, Doom, was mediocre at best.

Add a super whitewashed cast (including the kinda awkward looking Jake Gyllenhaal), and there is a lot that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has standing up against it on the road to quality as it heads into theaters on May 28th of next year.

Now that we have the first official trailer, embedded above, I can’t say I’m feeling that much more confident about it.

Sure, the effects and stunts look downright jawdropping, and the cinematography is out of this world, but it feels like the bastard child of the Mummy/Scorpion King series, with a taste of Pirates of the Carribbean mixed into it.

As a fan of the Persia games over the years, I would love to be proven wrong and see a decent video game based movie for once, but this trailer isn’t instilling me with hopes of the flick being more than some mindless eye candy.

We’ll find out for sure when Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time hits on May 28th, 2010.

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