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Simply Perfect

hyped garbage

Best movie of this year hands down!

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

When I first went into this movie....Nope. Not that type of review.This movie (to me at least) is fairly interesting, and quite entertaining. There's an organization trying to uncover secrets about the history of the assassins, by having them act out the events through a different take on time travel. You have a criminal being "forced" to have a part in that. The best parts of the movie are easily the events of the past: Assassins on the run.In present day, while the movie still keeps me interested, it just feels like it was meant to keep the movie running to its 1hr and 45 minute runtime. The movie doesn't really have muchc going on throughout it; the main goal just being to uncover a particular secret. While it is a step in the right direction for Video game movies, its not big enough to start making them "amazing", or "outstanding".

I was a big fan of the video games, so I went to see this. As an adaptation on the video game, it does a poor job, but it's an okayish action movie, until the end. Throughout the whole movie, even though it's not great, it still makes sense. But in the last 30 minutes the movie ruins everything. Even in a world where people see their ancestors memories, the ending is stupid. I won't spoil it, but just believe me the ending makes this movie so much worse.

This film brought shame to the franchise and must put a lot of people off the incredible Ubisoft games, no story, no violence where as the games are astonishingly violent and there is non of the original characters from the games in it pretty much

I have never loved the Assassin's Creed games despite the fact that I have always wanted to. I love the ideas. I love the settings. I even love some of the characters. But the gameplay has never gripped me. Yet I was willing to give the film a chance hoping that perhaps the film could present the ideas, settings, and characters I enjoyed in a format I would find more palatable. Sadly the film does not succeed at this task.The most immediate failure of the film is that it focuses on the part of the game that even ardent fans of the series loathe: The ponderous future segments. The appeal of Assassin's Creed has always been the segments set far in the past. In the games, players are constantly rubbing shoulders with famous historical figures, climbing beautiful world wonders, and looking on in awe as the past is brought to life before their very eyes. The segments set in the future were nothing more than a framing device. An excuse to send players back into the past and to explain away the idiosyncrasies that interactive narratives create. They were never the focus and there was a good reason later games in the series diminished the presence of these segments.Yet the film chooses to stay in the future and barely acknowledge the past. It doesn't help that almost everyone in the film is a non-character. Yet we know even less about the assassin Aguilar then we do Callum Lynch. This is an absolute waste of a rich setting: the Spanish inquisition. We never get to see the horrors of this era (Then again, this IS a PG-13 movie... based on a firmly M rated game. Go figure.) nor do we ever get a compelling villain despite there being plenty of real life villains to choose from. Instead we get a boring corporate suit as our villain.It does not help that the film is utterly dreary. While the games may have been largely serious in their tone they chose to create beautiful, vibrant, colorful worlds and actually made an attempt to add in humor, charm, and actual character. Instead the film opts for a grim, bleak aesthetic full of shaky-cam and brown hues that makes an already boring film just as bland visually as it is narratively.And it is all such a shame. There is so much they could have done with this setting. There is so much they could have done with this cast. I'll even argue that some of the action scenes aren't half bad; there was an attempt to make them appear very much like the games - you see Assassin's leaping across roof-tops and fighting with their badass hidden blades in ways that are immediately reminiscent of the games. At the very least you get the impression that if anyone cared about this project, it was the choreographers. It does not matter if you are a fan or merely a casual observer, I cannot recommend this film to anyone. It is not the worst video game movie I have seen but is arguably one of the most boring and uninteresting.