Assassin's Creed

Going to the cinema sick with a fever and without a coke or an energy drink didn't pay off for me this time. I watched the whole film with one eye, so I didn't take much away, I woke up during the action, but since I didn't have any subtitle support I didn’t get much out of the story. I praise the music, the visuals and the action, anything in anonymous I found uninteresting. I'll leave it at a neutral three stars for now, hopefully on a second viewing I can pull it up to 4*. 65%. (2017-01-06)

Even a stupid story can be told in a way that doesn't make sense. An unbearably long two-hour apple game, which sometimes disrupts a successful parkour and a scene that reveals that Kurzel thinks of it artistically, but completely counterproductive for a blockbuster. It is difficult to say whether the smooth transitions between history and the present represent any sophisticated commentary on the art of the Gamer experience. I don't have the strength to find out. The screenplay is horribly annoying, the characters have no inner logic and the storytelling has no cadence. I was expecting a cleansing surge of Gamer ecstasy, but this leap of faith ended in a complicated fracture. (2016-12-21)

Kurzel filmed the Assassin in his own way and if he hadn’t had to cut down on the length, it could have been an excellent movie. This cut of the movie lacks explanations that would have helped the story to run more smoothly. Despite being a little banal (though fits magically together) the story should be told in full. The serious tone of it might not suit everybody. Paradoxically, Assassin’s Creed isn’t all fun, but about questions that viewers should ask themselves. (2017-01-01)

It’s no fan service and it goes hard toward even the most welcoming viewer. It’s a non-Hollywood adaptation that mercilessly flushed over a hundred million and had no shame in doing so. It’s visually captivating bliss that tests the projectionists and the limits of how much the viewer is willing to accept the creative rules. (2016-12-29)

I was looking forward to this movie, but it turned out to be a huge disappointment. I've played Assassin’s Creed, and I think it's definitely a top-quality game, but the filmmakers stripped away the best parts, threw them away, and served us some weird leftovers. In the game, I was annoyed by the flash-forwards. The plot of the film takes place practically entirely in the future and only occasionally ventures into the past, which was a let down for me. I was expecting something completely different, thus I was far from entertained. (2017-06-14)