Assassin's Creed

No leap of faith, but some solid footing.

2950d ago

If a videogame movie’s primary purpose is to drive attention and sales back to their console franchises, Assassin’s Creed represents a welcome new benchmark for formal authority in the genre. But if they are attempting to translate the main reason one picks a controller — the sheer fun of the experience — it’s rarely been this hostile. On paper, the plot of Assassin’s Creed is insanely goofy, but you’d never know it when executed with this much self-importance.

2950d ago

If a videogame movie’s primary purpose is to drive attention and sales back to their console franchises, Assassin’s Creed represents a welcome new benchmark for formal authority in the genre. But if they are attempting to translate the main reason one picks a controller — the sheer fun of the experience — it’s rarely been this hostile. On paper, the plot of Assassin’s Creed is insanely goofy, but you’d never know it when executed with this much self-importance.

2950d ago

If a videogame movie’s primary purpose is to drive attention and sales back to their console franchises, Assassin’s Creed represents a welcome new benchmark for formal authority in the genre. But if they are attempting to translate the main reason one picks a controller — the sheer fun of the experience — it’s rarely been this hostile. On paper, the plot of Assassin’s Creed is insanely goofy, but you’d never know it when executed with this much self-importance.

2950d ago

If a videogame movie’s primary purpose is to drive attention and sales back to their console franchises, Assassin’s Creed represents a welcome new benchmark for formal authority in the genre. But if they are attempting to translate the main reason one picks a controller — the sheer fun of the experience — it’s rarely been this hostile. On paper, the plot of Assassin’s Creed is insanely goofy, but you’d never know it when executed with this much self-importance.

2950d ago

Assassin’s Creed is a weird little critter. On the outside, it’s a robust, well-made, action-rich $125 million blockbuster featuring a grand array of stars, including Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, and Charlotte Rampling.

2950d ago

Assassin’s Creed is a weird little critter. On the outside, it’s a robust, well-made, action-rich $125 million blockbuster featuring a grand array of stars, including Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, and Charlotte Rampling.

2950d ago

Assassin’s Creed is a weird little critter. On the outside, it’s a robust, well-made, action-rich $125 million blockbuster featuring a grand array of stars, including Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, and Charlotte Rampling.

2950d ago

It takes a hell of a star to turn a time-traveling RPG into a non-carwreck movie – and Fassbender & co. nearly pull it off.

2950d ago

It takes a hell of a star to turn a time-traveling RPG into a non-carwreck movie – and Fassbender & co. nearly pull it off.

2950d ago

It takes a hell of a star to turn a time-traveling RPG into a non-carwreck movie – and Fassbender & co. nearly pull it off.

2950d ago

Assassin’s Creed is a weird little critter. On the outside, it’s a robust, well-made, action-rich $125 million blockbuster featuring a grand array of stars, including Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, and Charlotte Rampling.

2950d ago

It takes a hell of a star to turn a time-traveling RPG into a non-carwreck movie – and Fassbender & co. nearly pull it off.

2950d ago

‘Assassin’s Creed’ starring Michael Fassbender is a video game adaptation that’s both goofy & self-serious.

2950d ago

Death row prisoner Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is taken to a secret facility after his ‘execution’. There, he’s introduced to a secret society who want to import him into the memories of a 15th-century ancestor, Aguilar de Nerha, so they can track an important artefact...

2950d ago

What the hell are Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard doing in Assassin’s Creed?

2950d ago

Death row prisoner Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is taken to a secret facility after his ‘execution’. There, he’s introduced to a secret society who want to import him into the memories of a 15th-century ancestor, Aguilar de Nerha, so they can track an important artefact...

2950d ago

‘Assassin’s Creed’ starring Michael Fassbender is a video game adaptation that’s both goofy & self-serious.

2950d ago

What the hell are Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard doing in Assassin’s Creed?

2950d ago

Death row prisoner Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is taken to a secret facility after his ‘execution’. There, he’s introduced to a secret society who want to import him into the memories of a 15th-century ancestor, Aguilar de Nerha, so they can track an important artefact...

2950d ago

‘Assassin’s Creed’ starring Michael Fassbender is a video game adaptation that’s both goofy & self-serious.

2950d ago

‘Assassin’s Creed’ starring Michael Fassbender is a video game adaptation that’s both goofy & self-serious.

2950d ago

What the hell are Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard doing in Assassin’s Creed?

2950d ago

What the hell are Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard doing in Assassin’s Creed?

2950d ago

Death row prisoner Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is taken to a secret facility after his ‘execution’. There, he’s introduced to a secret society who want to import him into the memories of a 15th-century ancestor, Aguilar de Nerha, so they can track an important artefact...

2950d ago

It’s incrementally more fun than it is silly.

2950d ago

You say you’re an action-movie fan? “Assassin’s Creed,” based on the popular video game, will give you so much action you’ll stagger from the theater bug-eyed and bowled over. Oh, and mightily confused.

2950d ago

You say you’re an action-movie fan? “Assassin’s Creed,” based on the popular video game, will give you so much action you’ll stagger from the theater bug-eyed and bowled over. Oh, and mightily confused.

2950d ago

Incoherence is an underrated virtue in popcorn films. Bad blockbuster movies are never dumb just because they’re nonsense.

2950d ago

It’s incrementally more fun than it is silly.

2950d ago

Incoherence is an underrated virtue in popcorn films. Bad blockbuster movies are never dumb just because they’re nonsense.

2950d ago

It’s incrementally more fun than it is silly.

2950d ago

Incoherence is an underrated virtue in popcorn films. Bad blockbuster movies are never dumb just because they’re nonsense.

2950d ago

You say you’re an action-movie fan? “Assassin’s Creed,” based on the popular video game, will give you so much action you’ll stagger from the theater bug-eyed and bowled over. Oh, and mightily confused.

2950d ago

You say you’re an action-movie fan? “Assassin’s Creed,” based on the popular video game, will give you so much action you’ll stagger from the theater bug-eyed and bowled over. Oh, and mightily confused.

2950d ago

Incoherence is an underrated virtue in popcorn films. Bad blockbuster movies are never dumb just because they’re nonsense.

2950d ago

It’s incrementally more fun than it is silly.

2950d ago

How is this video-game movie different from all other video-game movies? It's got classier stars, but it's really the same old sludge.

2950d ago

Even Michael Fassbender can't make this junk leap off the screen.

2950d ago

How is this video-game movie different from all other video-game movies? It's got classier stars, but it's really the same old sludge.

2950d ago

Even Michael Fassbender can't make this junk leap off the screen.

2950d ago

Even Michael Fassbender can't make this junk leap off the screen.

2950d ago

How is this video-game movie different from all other video-game movies? It's got classier stars, but it's really the same old sludge.

2950d ago

Even Michael Fassbender can't make this junk leap off the screen.

2950d ago

How is this video-game movie different from all other video-game movies? It's got classier stars, but it's really the same old sludge.

2950d ago

"Assassin's Creed" is a movie based on a game franchise where you jump around in period dress (the setting depends on which game you're playing) climb buildings and murder people.

2950d ago

"Assassin's Creed" is a movie based on a game franchise where you jump around in period dress (the setting depends on which game you're playing) climb buildings and murder people.

2950d ago

"Assassin's Creed" is a movie based on a game franchise where you jump around in period dress (the setting depends on which game you're playing) climb buildings and murder people.

2950d ago

"Assassin's Creed" is a movie based on a game franchise where you jump around in period dress (the setting depends on which game you're playing) climb buildings and murder people.

2950d ago

For an ostensible action movie, the cast spends an awful lot of time standing around and looking lost. I can only guess that they were following their director’s lead.

2950d ago

Reteaming with his “Macbeth” co-star (Marion Cotillard) and director, Fassbender’s latest tries and fails to break the game-to-film curse.

2950d ago

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard reteam with their ‘Macbeth’ director Justin Kurzel for an adaptation of Ubisoft’s game franchise.

2950d ago

Reteaming with his “Macbeth” co-star (Marion Cotillard) and director, Fassbender’s latest tries and fails to break the game-to-film curse.

2950d ago

The Assassin's Creed video games are about skipping through tedious cut scenes set in the present so that you can vault into the past, through and over gorgeous recreations of the roofs and streets of medieval and Renaissance cities.

2950d ago

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard reteam with their ‘Macbeth’ director Justin Kurzel for an adaptation of Ubisoft’s game franchise.

2950d ago

For an ostensible action movie, the cast spends an awful lot of time standing around and looking lost. I can only guess that they were following their director’s lead.

2950d ago

Any fans hoping that Assassin's Creed would break the long streak of poor video game adaptations are bound to be disappointed by this nearly incomprehensible mess.

2950d ago

Any fans hoping that Assassin's Creed would break the long streak of poor video game adaptations are bound to be disappointed by this nearly incomprehensible mess.

2950d ago

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard reteam with their ‘Macbeth’ director Justin Kurzel for an adaptation of Ubisoft’s game franchise.

2950d ago

No Assassin’s Creed novels. No Assassin’s Creed movie. That would mean one less opportunity to see Michael Fassbender shirtless. Our world would be a dark one.

2950d ago

The Assassin's Creed video games are about skipping through tedious cut scenes set in the present so that you can vault into the past, through and over gorgeous recreations of the roofs and streets of medieval and Renaissance cities.

2950d ago

No Assassin’s Creed novels. No Assassin’s Creed movie. That would mean one less opportunity to see Michael Fassbender shirtless. Our world would be a dark one.

2950d ago

Reteaming with his “Macbeth” co-star (Marion Cotillard) and director, Fassbender’s latest tries and fails to break the game-to-film curse.

2950d ago

For an ostensible action movie, the cast spends an awful lot of time standing around and looking lost. I can only guess that they were following their director’s lead.

2950d ago

Any fans hoping that Assassin's Creed would break the long streak of poor video game adaptations are bound to be disappointed by this nearly incomprehensible mess.

2950d ago

The Assassin's Creed video games are about skipping through tedious cut scenes set in the present so that you can vault into the past, through and over gorgeous recreations of the roofs and streets of medieval and Renaissance cities.

2950d ago

No Assassin’s Creed novels. No Assassin’s Creed movie. That would mean one less opportunity to see Michael Fassbender shirtless. Our world would be a dark one.

2950d ago

The Assassin's Creed video games are about skipping through tedious cut scenes set in the present so that you can vault into the past, through and over gorgeous recreations of the roofs and streets of medieval and Renaissance cities.

2950d ago

No Assassin’s Creed novels. No Assassin’s Creed movie. That would mean one less opportunity to see Michael Fassbender shirtless. Our world would be a dark one.

2950d ago

Reteaming with his “Macbeth” co-star (Marion Cotillard) and director, Fassbender’s latest tries and fails to break the game-to-film curse.

2950d ago

For an ostensible action movie, the cast spends an awful lot of time standing around and looking lost. I can only guess that they were following their director’s lead.

2950d ago

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard reteam with their ‘Macbeth’ director Justin Kurzel for an adaptation of Ubisoft’s game franchise.

2950d ago

Any fans hoping that Assassin's Creed would break the long streak of poor video game adaptations are bound to be disappointed by this nearly incomprehensible mess.

2950d ago

It's just a mediocre action movie, poorly edited and larded with a terrible musical score, based on a video game. Nothing new there.

2950d ago

It’s Oscar season, so naturally we have Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons in . . . a video game adaptation? Surprisingly and regrettably, yes. Fassbender stars as Callum Lynch (or “you,” perhaps, in a gaming situation), a convicted murderer rescued from lethal injection by a scientist (Cotillard) with a top-secret and very convoluted project involving past-life regression via virtual reality.

2950d ago

It’s Oscar season, so naturally we have Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons in . . . a video game adaptation? Surprisingly and regrettably, yes. Fassbender stars as Callum Lynch (or “you,” perhaps, in a gaming situation), a convicted murderer rescued from lethal injection by a scientist (Cotillard) with a top-secret and very convoluted project involving past-life regression via virtual reality.

2950d ago

It's just a mediocre action movie, poorly edited and larded with a terrible musical score, based on a video game. Nothing new there.

2950d ago

It's just a mediocre action movie, poorly edited and larded with a terrible musical score, based on a video game. Nothing new there.

2950d ago

It’s Oscar season, so naturally we have Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons in . . . a video game adaptation? Surprisingly and regrettably, yes. Fassbender stars as Callum Lynch (or “you,” perhaps, in a gaming situation), a convicted murderer rescued from lethal injection by a scientist (Cotillard) with a top-secret and very convoluted project involving past-life regression via virtual reality.

2950d ago

It’s Oscar season, so naturally we have Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons in . . . a video game adaptation? Surprisingly and regrettably, yes. Fassbender stars as Callum Lynch (or “you,” perhaps, in a gaming situation), a convicted murderer rescued from lethal injection by a scientist (Cotillard) with a top-secret and very convoluted project involving past-life regression via virtual reality.

2950d ago

It's just a mediocre action movie, poorly edited and larded with a terrible musical score, based on a video game. Nothing new there.

2950d ago

Assassin’s Creed is a dour, lifeless film that leaves those familiar with the material perplexed, and those ignorant of it downright clueless.

2950d ago

This film adaptation of the successful videogame, in which Fassbender must battle Templars after the original apple from Eden, is an interminable, lifeless mess.

2950d ago

Assassin’s Creed is a dour, lifeless film that leaves those familiar with the material perplexed, and those ignorant of it downright clueless.

2950d ago

Assassin’s Creed is a dour, lifeless film that leaves those familiar with the material perplexed, and those ignorant of it downright clueless.

2950d ago

This film adaptation of the successful videogame, in which Fassbender must battle Templars after the original apple from Eden, is an interminable, lifeless mess.

2950d ago

This film adaptation of the successful videogame, in which Fassbender must battle Templars after the original apple from Eden, is an interminable, lifeless mess.

2950d ago

Assassin’s Creed is a dour, lifeless film that leaves those familiar with the material perplexed, and those ignorant of it downright clueless.

2950d ago

This film adaptation of the successful videogame, in which Fassbender must battle Templars after the original apple from Eden, is an interminable, lifeless mess.

2950d ago

It ends up with blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.

2950d ago

It ends up with blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.

2950d ago

It ends up with blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.

2950d ago

It ends up with blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.

2950d ago