CrystalsBonusAndReviews

This movie was very good. It really shows what the police go through when they work a case and how that case stays with them. A young woman named Liliana Coloto is brutally murdered. Benjamin Esposito, played by Ricardo Darrin is assigned to the case. He walks into the crime scene and he can’t believe his eyes. There is blood everywhere and there amidst the chaos of forensics and the police lay the battered body of a young woman. He is determined to find the monster that did this. He goes to Liliana’s husband Ricardo Morales, played by Pablo Rago.

He tells Ricardo that his wife has been murdered. Ricardo is devastated. He and his wife were newlyweds and he really loved her. He lets Benjamin look through their photo album to see if there could be any clues that would lead them to the killer. His hunch pays off he sees a man in several photos looking right at Liliana. It turns out the man in the photo grew up with her. His name was Isidoro Gomez, played by Javier Godino. Benjamin and his partner do some snooping and they track him down at a soccer game where he is arrested and charged with Liliana’s murder.

Benjamin’s boss Irene played by Solidad Villamil has a hunch that he is guilty because of the looking his eyes and how he was looking at her.  She agitates Isidoro to the extent that he lashes out and hits her exposing his true rage. He confesses to raping and killing Liliana. He is sentenced to life in prison, but things do not go as planned and somehow justice does not get served at that moment. This movie draws you in and keeps you in suspense until the end and the ending will blow your mind. I am giving it 4 out of 5 popcorn bags.

This movie has a lot of action. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Dastan who is a Prince of Persia. Gemma Artertan plays Princess Tamina, who’s city Dastan and the Persians invade.  Ben Kingsley plays Nizam, who is Dastan’s uncle and also the Villain of the story.  Richard Coyle plays Tus, who is Dastan’s brother and the one next in line to be King of Persia. Ronald Pickup plays the Persian King Sharaman. Under the direction of Mike Newell all the actors deliver good performances. The movie opens with Persia invading Princes Tamina’s City.  The fight scenes are brilliant especially when Jake uses the “par for” technique to jump over buildings. He ran up the side of walls, jumped and ran on top of buildings. He even falls, swings from ropes and jumps through windows. It was exciting to watch him do his own stunts.

He finds a dagger on one of Princess Tamina’s soldiers and he takes it not knowing what a powerful dagger it truly is. This dagger has the power to go back in time. If the sands of time were ever unleashed it could destroy life as we know it. Nizam wants the dagger so he can go back in time and reverse his saving the King when they were children, so he can be King forever. If he never saved the King then there would be no heirs to the throne and he would rule indefinitely.

Nizam kills the King and sets Dastan up to take the fall for the murder.  Princess Tamina is no ordinary Princess. She really is the guardian of the dagger. She and Dastan go on the run. He finds out the power of the dagger and he tries to return to set things right.  I liked this movie because of the action; even though the screen play was weak I’m giving it 3 out of 5 popcorn bags.