You have an Oscar you know . . .

It’s almost impossible to remember that Ben Kingsley once had a career so strong that it was a genuine shock when he didn’t win any awards. Sadly, his days of Gandhi and Schindler’s List type performances seem to be gone. Hell, even days of Sexy Beast and House of Sand & Fog are even gone. I can’t tell if he’s completely lost the plot, desperately bankrupt and needs the money, or just taking waaaaay too much medication and using that to guide his role selection.

First Kingsley play a dirty-minded sex guru giving advice to a digitally young Mike Myers. Perhaps even more disturbing than merely seeing him on the screen is witnessing how much he actually gets into the part. You’d actually think Sir Kingsley enjoys making a mockery of the culture he venerated in his Oscar winning role with infantile sex gags and fart noises. Ahh, but the Americans will laugh; perhaps that’s all that matters.

Secondly, in a fantasy adventure based on Ubisoft's popular video game, Prince of Persia, (excellent game by the way, not quite sure turning it into a movie as is the crap hot trend these days . . .), Jake Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in sixth century Persia who must prevent a villainous nobleman (Kingsley, of course . . .) from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world. Right . . .

Oh Sir Kingsley, what has happened to your class?