Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

kbregan-22610 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.

betty dalton I often get bored beyond belief by those dumb action movies. I would rather stare at my wallpaper, then watch those mindnumbing stories about action heroes that arent for a second connected to anything remotely true to life. But "Assassin's Creed" is not just kids stuff, this is seriously impressive. Adults and arthouse movie geeks could appreciate this frenetic, mindtwisting story as well.I really was so surprised by the impressively, frightening undertones of this movie that I wanted to find out more about who directed this movie. Justin Kurzel is the director's name.And then I immediatedly understood why this movie aint nowhere near any other ordinary hollywood action movie. This director has in his young carreer already achieved worldwide acclaim with "Snowtown". Just check out the trailer on Imdb, that is seriously heavy stuff. No kids stuff at all, although kids have leading roles in it. Afterwards he made "MacBeth". Another hardhitting gritty action movie. The only fault with this movie could be that it could be marketted for kids only, while adults could appreciate it very much too. Michael Fassbender produced this adaptation of this action game himself. That means he must have had a lot of control over the end result. And that shows, because "Assassin's Creed" has got terrific acting in it and no hollywood ending, which I applaud. I immediatedly want to praise the soundtrack as well, which is one of the best ones I have heard in a long time. Chilling, powerful music that went under my skin. So did this movie."Assassin's Creed" is a story about timetravel. The goal of going back in time is to save a symbol that preserves men's free will. Will they be able to destroy this symbol of men's own free will or will it be protected for future mankind? That 's the suspense of the story in a nutshell. I know, this sounds childish and bizarre. When I would read such a synopsis of the story myself I would immediatedly disregard this picture. But please give it a try, because when I started to watch it, with a lot of negative expectations, I soon noticed the enormous acting and direction qualities. For example, I was so pleased to see Jeremy Irons and Charlotte Rampling acting again. Those are masters at their skills and although they only play supporting roles, their emotional impact is very powerful. "Assassin's Creed" is one of those few exceptions in which a game truly has become a very impressive movie."Assassin's Creed" is ofcourse not a cinematic masterpiece, because it is still catered to the youth, hence the boring action sequences that go on for too long, but that's the only flaw of this movie though, the rest is truly impressive. In it's own action hero genre I would say this is one of the best I have seen in years. "Logan" comes to mind as an equally powerful action hero movie, which can be enjoyed by adults as well...

corrindodman 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.

feyipuk Quite a few movies based on video game cherry pick from the source material to make a film that attracts a wider audience, with the intention to get them to try the games they're based on. They're not going to go into detail in a two hour film in the same way they would a multi faceted video game that wants to keep you coming back for more. I'm not sure, based on this film, I'd want to play the games. Here, a large organisation, with massive resources, has developed a device (that wouldn't look out of place in the Matrix series) which can tap into an individuals ancestral memories and project them for all to see, with the intention of finding something those ancestors hid.And it's that split - between current time and past time - that spoiled the movie for me. The scenes with Aguilar are well shot pieces of action; life and death scenarios that puts you in the center of the action, wondering how they're going to escape. The atmospheric eagle swooping shots give this over view of how vast the situations are that these characters exist in. And then it pauses and the we return to Cal Lynch in the present, with some dialogue about why he's in the situation he's found himself and meeting other subjects of this procedure. It's like you're watching the game and then watching the person playing the game, resulting in a weakening of the characters, as none really get fleshed out. It's got a decent cast - Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling - yet it's the action that takes center stage and none of them really gets to perform. I mean, IMDB lists Brendan Gleeson (Joseph Lynch) above Rampling, though if you look away at the wrong moment, you'd probably miss him! A younger version of Joseph - played by his son, Brian Gleeson - gets more lines (though the film does touch on why that happened).