Assassin's Creed

2016 • 115 minutes

About this movie

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in this action-adventure film based on the critically acclaimed video game franchise. Through a technology that unlocks his memories, Callum (Fassbender) discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order.

Ratings and reviews

Appalling, except of lack of any cultural or educational value, it is an slander on the Catholic church, not Protestant, Anglican or Lutheran. Bad, but blood thirsty, corrupted Catholic church and the good and righteous Assassin's. You got to be kidding me. The Templars and Inquisition were actually protectors of the Christian Europe against Muslims. How true now when we have crisis of believes and the Islam in the frontal attack everywhere.

Utterly tedious and uninteresting. Even the final climactic action scene (which, bizarrely happens 20 minutes before the completely uneventful ending), barely held my interest. All the characters are poorly sketched outlines, and none of their actions make very much sense. I couldn't care less who "won" at the end, I just wanted every last one of them to get off of my TV. The final fade to black at the end was the best part of the film.

Rubbish! Some great actors, but unfortunately it's not enough. The plot, while OKish for a video games, is ridiculously dumb and hard to swallow in the movie. This movie does NOT make any sense - it just blunders here and there with neither perceivable goal nor a climax in sight. Fight scenes and choreography (which the games are famous for) are short and far between and frankly not even remotely enough to keep anyone engaged. And dialogue... listening to some of the conversations in the movie was only marginally more pleasant and interesting than pulling teeth without anaesthesia.