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

One of the worst movies I've seen in a while. The plot is incoherent and made no sense, they didn't attempt to have it make sense. For a game based movie, the special effects were pretty crappy. These effects would look good in a game, but not in a movie. And they couldn't find a more efficient mind time travel contraption, than that huge arm thing? That's nothing more than a failed attempt at virtual reality. And of course, the sultan's the good guy, the templars the bad guys, cos 2016... Why not?

As a fan of the video game franchise, I liked this movie. For a video game movie I think they did a great job with giving weight to the story. They established who are the leading characters and why this Creed exists. Overall I'm confident that part two will be more interesting as they will be able to build off of the characters. Also they left a decent cliff hanger to keep you guessing "what will happen next!?"

I don't know why many reviews out there are so harsh on it, it's been a real fun watch. I would have obviously prefered much more time in the past than the present but the whole story still kept it interesting. The OST was pretty on point and the plot twist was actually not expected, at least for me.