CGI swings into action as Dastan, in plummy English tells us that, "releasing the sand turns back time." Okay, now we know who's really after the thing: Cher.

Trivia fans! His accent sounds like it's based on one of the early game's Dastan voices, which was proper English an' all.

"We create layers, like the first time we did the actual pushing the dagger and the sand comes out, there was nothing going through his body," says Bruckheimer. "He'd just lift it above the scene and stayed there, started using the sand, electricity going through his body.

"So you keep layering it. When you see the movie in the theaters it will be more layers than what you see just now."