Prince of Persia: Sands of Time stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan, the Prince of Persia in sixth century BC. He was born as a street rat and in the movie’s opening scene you get a sense of Aladdin’s opening scene from Disney’s Aladdin. Just a side note, Walt Disney Pictures is the company heading this project.

Fifteen years after Dastan is rescued from the streets, he leads his team of fellow street rats into the city of Alamut where they are victorious and this starts the ripple effect for the rest of the movie. During the siege of Alamut, Dastan finds the dagger that controls the sands of time. Shortly after the fight, the King’s advisor and brother, Nizam, played by Ben Kingsley, sees said dagger and says that he should hand it over as a gift to the King. Instead Dastan’s brother, Tus, tells Dastan to offer a royal gown that was given to him by Nizam. Of course this kills the King and the blame is placed on Dastan. As he escapes, he is followed by Princess Tamina of Alamut, played by Gemma Arteton. She is the one sworn to protect the dagger and tried her hardest to get it back from Dastan as they make their way to his father’s funeral. On there way they are captured and taken to an ostrich race track run by Sheik Amar, played by Alfred Molina, who is against taxes and Persians. Leave it to Disney to find a way to put some type of odd animal into its movie. Once they escape, in a Disney chaotic fashion, they finally reach King Sharaman's funeral where Dastan is able to talk to Nizam and tells him that he believes his brother is involved with the death of his father. Dastan shortly learns that this isn’t true and that Nizam is the cause of everything. Nizam wants the dagger so he can undo the moment when he his brother the King when they were kids. If Nizam had never done this, he would have been the King of Persia. Dastan is able to escape (yet again) and he and Tamina head off to return the dagger. She tells Dastan that there is an hourglass, created by the gods to punish humans for their sins. If the dagger breaks the glass, it will mean the end of the world.

Now that Nizam knows who has the dagger and that Dastan is aware, Nizam sends out his version of the Black Ops, lethal assassins known as the Hashahashins. Dastan and Tamina are ambushed as they try to return the dagger to its rightful place. The dagger is taken back to Nizam and the two heroes must take it back.

With the help of the ostrich race track owner, they head back Alamut where the hourglass is located. This is where Tamina discovers that she isn’t the one destined to save the people but it is Dastan’s job. She falls into a pit while Nizam and Dastan fight over who will cut the hourglass first.

Of course Dastan is the one who wins the fight and time rewinds to right after Alamut is taken. Dastan rushes to his brothers to tell him that Alamut is not making weapons for Persia’s enemies against Persia but instead Nizam wants the city taken so he can get his hands on the dagger. To convince is brother Tus, Dastan tells him something that only Tus and his father shared together. With these words about brothers, Tus believes Dastan.