Review of Assassin's Creed (2016) by Frame R — 03 Apr 2018

The curse of the video game based movies has been lifted! (And this is sarcasm, kids!).

ASSASSIN'S CREED.

I had high hopes for this one... I really did. But I must have learnt by now that films based on video games tend not to truly work (except some moments of Lara Croft). Last year we had the honor of seeing the needless Angry Birds and the concussion of CGI also known as "Warcraft". One of the problems of Assassin's was also the problem of Warcraft - cramming too many characters, plot points and too much of the universe at once. If I had to choose a person that I had to ear until I died it would be Jeremy Irons and the powerful quietness of Charlotte Rampling can't be stressed enough (the last shot of 45 Years says more than this entire movie). However Marion and Fassbender are the ones really carrying the film, as they're two of the best working today. It shows that Justin Kurzel knows how to direct them, but it's way more worth it to see them in his brilliant take on the Scottish play. Macbeth was so beautifully shot and the script was so foolproof (duh, it's Shakespeare) that you're left to wonder where did Kurzel's focus and inspiration go. The unnecessarily complicated script is much to blame as it left me not understanding a single thing of what just had happened (Should I have played the video game before? Ain't nobody got time for that!). Its sense of movement is at times very appropriate to the genre but the actions scenes have so many cuts that it may have been edited by Marvel. At the end of the day it's not interesting enough and the video game isn't failry translated. Still, Michael Fassbender running around shirtless is... pretty hot!