Assassin's Creed (2016)

This is How Movies Should Be Made

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Excellent, a Must See

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

This was a great effort. People are seldom seen satisfied. Are they wise enough to do it better themselves? Otherwise complaining is just gonna cause desynchronization. Anyway, nothing beats everything. If you wanna be thrilled, play the games. But watch the movie as well, it's cool.

Now, I will state that it has it's weird moments especially from being someone who plays the games, but it honestly isn't that bad. I throughly enjoyed it, did have some confusing scenes but it's a movie based on a game and you really need to take the game aspect out when you watch these types of movies. Most of these bad reviews are from gamers which I can understand, but it's a movie, it's not aimed for just us gamers it's meant for others as well. I know this will probably never get it's sequel, which is sad, but I would really love to see one with all these actors, like they know what went wrong with this movie, so give them a second chance to fix it. I'm actually curious and excited to see where they could have taken this.

The action was awesome, but the director had used a lot of imagination

Young Callum Lynch's father kills his mother. As an adult, Cal is executed for murder, following which a secret organisation recruits/kidnaps him because he is a genetic descendant of Aguilar, a Spanish assassin from the 16th century. The Assassins' Guild has been at war with the Templars for centuries over the Eden Apple - the Templars want to use it to remove free will to stop violence, the Assassins want to stop the Templars, and Cal can be regressed to Aguilar who was the last person known to have been in possession of the Eden Apple.That is actually a halfway decent concept on which to base a story. So it's a shame that the film delivers it in a fairly muddled and inconsequential fashion. The action sequences, whether in the present-day facility where Cal finds himself, or in medieval Spain, are well staged if not always completely clear - the special effect which shows Cal fighting while attached to the Animus (the doodad which facilitates the regression) interfaced with the actual combat involving Aguilar is more distracting than effective.The colour palette, as is the fashion, is drab and desaturated, dull and shadowy. Coupled with the tendency for characters to wear the same thing - pale pastel bodysuits in present-day, hoodies in Spain - it isn't always easy to tell who is who. And, even when you can tell, so what? Aguilar does a great deal of running, jumping, and fighting with a young woman who he obviously cares about but, as we never find out who she is or what their relationship is (other than that they are both Assassins), why should we care? Cal is given little by way of background, the nature of the Eden Apple and how it works is vague - it turns out that it emits a greenish light and vapour which doesn't appear to have any immediate effect, which is puzzling given that it is supposedly a DNA map - the identities and driving forces for a lot of the characters are touched on fleetingly at best and, as the film finishes, you are left with a bucketful of unanswered questions (was Callum actually executed or not. for one).The excellent cast is given little to do which a considerably less excellent cast couldn't have done just as well. I suppose their names on the posters put bums on seats.Unless your shopping list has only one thing on it - "Chase/combat action" - you are better off watching someone play through the game. As a film, this is a deeply unsatisfying experience.And don't bother with the 3D.