Review of Assassin's Creed (2016) by Michael D — 25 Sep 2017

Assassin's Creed is one of the best video games I have played. While it becomes a tad mundane due to the repetition over the course of all the iterations, the stories were always fun and the action intense. However, it's yet another instance where a video game adaptation to the silver screen suffers from a lack of depth, emotion, and imagination that comes when playing for hours on a machine instead of watching for two.

The mood from the get go is somber and muted. The colors are these dull greys, golds, and chromatic offerings that don't translate to when our main character transfers out of the real world and into his fantasy world like the game was so successful at.

The cast is impeccable for a video game movie, but it's upsetting to see such little acting come out of any of the big players. Michael Fassbender, Marion Cottilard, and Jeremy Irons deserve to be in Oscar pictures. The CGI-fueled Assassin's Creed has bits and pieces here from the game that make someone like me, who has played them before, ooo and aahh. But there's just too much exposition and dialogue for anyone else to get bored with. The story is too elusive for one film and though it sets it up for a second, I don't think there's a need to continue this in the theater as much as there is to continue it on the Xbox.