Review of Assassin's Creed (2016) by Sakusa — 26 Dec 2016

DON'T LISTEN TO ALL THE HATE GUYS!! READ PLZ.

I've come all the way from the mystic land of IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes to spread the truth of this movie as a person who has actually played the games. Kinda goes to show how frustrated I am about this injustice...

As a lover of the Assassin's Creed universe, I find this a really enjoyable movie. I really don't understand all the hate. Maybe it's because people expect something bad and end up seeing only the flaws, especially since video game movies are usually really bad. I love how they depicted the life of modern day assassins; it fleshed it out very well, and it showed without hesitation what the Creed is about. The scenery is beautiful; the animus (though different) provides an immersion I appreciate; the fighting scenes are very similar to the combat experienced in the games (the climbing too! which is AWESOME); the ending makes sense if you've played the games. I admit that there are flaws like the movie focusing a lot more on the modern assassins rather than the ancestral ones (the games focus more on the ancestors if ya didn't know), but they are understandable changes considering the new audience. I think it would've been a little better with me if they treated the movie like another Assassin's Creed game. So basically, to a newcomer into the Assassin's Creed world, they will either get confused and hate the movie because they don't understand it, or they will experience it like one of Marvel's superhero movies, but with a strange emptiness similar to that of Ex Machina. For people who have played the games and don't enjoy it just for the thrills, I think you'll be very surprised at what the movie accomplished. I know I was.

Kinda funny how the movie's like "We work in the darkenss to serve the light" and that's exactly what it's doing in real life. Just goes to show what a good movie it is. xD.

P.S. Totes buying this movie, bro. Gonna show my friends the light in the darkness.