Review of Assassin's Creed (2016) by Itslukenunn — 02 Jan 2017

Assassin's Creed is by no means a perfect film. In places it falls flat, in other places it feels scared and lacks confidence in itself and the story overall isn't anything special or memorable. However, the cinematography, the costumes, the world that has been created is stunning. It feels like Assassin's Creed and does the games justice in that aspect. Several sequences in the film take your breath away with how action packed and bad ass they feel and the casting suits the film perfectly. A lot of people were sceptical about the new animus and how that would work. But I must say it was brilliant, it translates perfectly to film and just makes the action sequences that much better. I would say that if you are an Assassin's Creed fan you will watch it and most probably enjoy it for what it is. A lot of people seemed to have jumped on the hate band wagon and not given it the reviews it deserves. I would watch it again as I definitely enjoyed it and would even welcome a sequel. I think they tried to play it safe with this film and some of it paid off, some of it really didn't.

At the end of the day, they had a hard job. They had to please the fans who know the games as well as pleasing people who are new to the Assassins Creed universe. Finding that balance is difficult and when you get torn between pleasing both parties you either end up with on screen magic, or a confusing and poorly explained couple of scenes. This film did both of the above.