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  Review by 🎄Matthew L. Brady🎄🎅❄️ ★★ 16

  YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE! You were supposed to destroy bad video game movies, not join them! Bring balance to cinema, not leave it in darkness!

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 21

  History, which is foundational to the captivatingly bonkers story of Justin Kurzel’s “Assassin’s Creed,” tells us that this should be a very bad movie. For one thing, this dense, dour, and oft-delayed holiday spectacle is based on a popular series of video games — a grim omen in a year that brought us the likes of “Warcraft” and “Ratchet & Clank.” For another, Kurzel’s moody adaptation is told on a massive scale, budgeted to compete with other franchise monstrosities like “Rogue One” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” — the familiar trouble with making a film like this is that it’s too expensive to afford any risks.

  But “Assassin’s Creed,” in which Michael Fassbender’s blank protagonist quite literally repeats…

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  Review by David Sims ★★★½ 11

  fuck...is this movie good?

  fuck!!!!

  gotta give it up for the creed though. what a creed. top 10 creeds.

  and you GOTTA give it up for the apple. need that apple to win a Nobel Peace Prize!

  P.S. Marion Cotillard 100% believes this movie is non-fiction and that the Knights Templar are after her even as we speak

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  Review by Jay ★½ 3

  distinguishably lacked the only thing i remember from playing assassins creed: hiding in haystacks

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  Review by adambolt ★★

  how many fools can I kill today

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  Review by Sean Baker 29

  Watched the Blu-ray rented from Netflix

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★½ 5

  48/100

  Justin Kurzel sucks the lifeblood out of anything he touches, and Assassin's Creed is no exception, but the self-serious ambition exudes an entrancing sense of style in spite of the goofy premise being drained of its inherent silliness. The flashback sequences are silent, acrobatic showcases - a dizzying soundtrack fulfills the extended chases and high-jumping movements - while the present-day material drowns in convoluted concepts, and the resulting mix is one of continuous fascination and intermittent thrills. See it for the Fassbender.

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  Review by esther ★ 3

  watching this i remembered how they promoted the "leap of faith" scene as "the highest stunt jump in movie history" and in the movie it looks like a fake guy jumping into digital soup.

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★ 7

  how did this happen

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  Review by adrian ★ 5

  Fassbender: What the fuck is going on?
  Me, at the tv: Right, Michael?!

  There’s a scene where Michael says, while incapacitated, I can’t feel my legs. A scene later he’s shown rolling around in a wheelchair.

  From then on I was telling myself this was alternate-universe Magneto who swapped places with Xavier—anything to repress my insatiable boredom.

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★

  there are just enough movie star gestures to be tricked into thinking, albeit briefly, that this is "real" or "a little good," but it is actually just truly stupid and very laborious. as an extremely passive fan of the video game franchise, it seems apparent to me that the parts of the game that no one actually cares about - corporate nonsense - are the driving force here, and all the stuff people actually like to do - sneak into a fort - are otherwise missing. I think people who don't watch Zach Snyder movies think this is what they're like: ugly, over-directed, with everyone speaking seriously in platitudinous language, but at least those Snyder movies are weird enough to justify their own existence. Charlotte Rampling, dude??? she'll just show up on a movie set and say literally anything

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  Review by DirkH ★★ 4

  For a film completely devoid of a soul it manages to scrape through because of its unwavering faith in its own convoluted and ridiculous premise.

  The games are extremely cinematic, so it is rather ironic (and not in the least frustrating) that Kurzel and Co are intent on ignoring that for the better part of the film, focusing instead on a plot inhabited by characters so ripe with pathos they're ready to explode in a sea of pantomime dramatic expressions.

  And even when they try emulate the game it is often good but never brilliant due to an unnecessary kinetic camera, often losing sense of space and direction.

  I appreciate the fact that they tried to be different, but that should never win over trying to be good first.