Assassin's Creed (2016)

[Phyrebrat]

Good for you. Take my parents.

pH

 

[Alexa]

I've actually read the novels before I found out they were based on video games. I really liked them and with the actor selected, I had high expectations. My mistake !*sigh*

 

[Brian G Turner]

Any more impressions of this film?

 

[Boneman]

Saw it again last week: I got edgy about the fact that it's set so much in today's world, and so little in the medieval era. Realised I wasn't actually enjoying it, because of the back and forth jumps that made it very bitty. Shame.

 

[williamjm]

Saw it again last week: I got edgy about the fact that it's set so much in today's world, and so little in the medieval era. Realised I wasn't actually enjoying it, because of the back and forth jumps that made it very bitty. Shame.

I watched it a couple of weeks ago and thought it was very mediocre. I agree the film suffered from the split in time periods, especially because the modern era storyline was tedious and featured endless exposition as Marion Cottilard tried to explain the convoluted backstory. The historical time period at least had some reasonable action scenes. No matter which time period it was focusing on there was lack of interesting characterisation with some great actors being completely wasted.