Prince of Persia is a popular, multi-platform video game series. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was the first of the series to be available on Playstation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, and Gameboy Advance, and was also available for Microsoft Windows. Now, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will soon be available through a new medium — it will be yet another best-selling video game made into a science fiction/fantasy film.

Persia's predecessors have met with mixed box office success and almost universally horrible reviews. Some video games have made fairly decent movies, with Resident Evil and Hitman topping the list but by no means excellent films.

The large majority of the video-games-turned-movies — Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, two Street Fighter movies, two Mortal Kombat movies, Wing Commander, two Final Fantasy films (both animated), House of the Dead (and its made-for-TV sequel), Alone in the Dark, two Tomb Raider flicks, Doom, Dead or Alive, two awful, awful BloodRayne movies, Silent Hill, the Resident Evil sequels, and Max Payne, to name a few — are just plain terrible. The acting is usually sub-par, the plots are never interesting, and the overall product is generally genuinely sloppy.

Yet, more video game movies are on the horizon. Resident Evil will return, and Tekken will try to break the fighting game curse of movie disasters. Others, like Gears of War and Shadow of the Colossus show promise, if the right people actually put some time into devising a reasonable plot and recruiting a decent cast and crew.

As for Prince of Persia, however, the verdict is still out. Will it be a favorite or a flop?

Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to be Released in Theaters on May 28, 2010

Like it or not, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is well on its way toward video-game-turned-film fame or infamy. The movie is well into its post-production stage, hoping to be the first 2010 summer blockbuster with its May 28 release date.

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