Assassin's Creed

Life has been life’n, so I honestly didn’t know they even made this movie—but as someone who played the hell out of Assassin’s Creed back in the PS3 days (yes, dorm room vibes and Bad Girls Club in the background), I gotta say I was impressed. The actors, the sets, the energy—they really executed it well. Usually, when they adapt games like this, they fumble HARD, but this one? It actually followed the game pretty closely and felt true to the world. It gave me such a wave of nostalgia I almost forgot where I was for a second.I seriously wish they’d made a sequel. They just didn’t advertise it well at all—and that’s a shame. This movie deserved better promotion, and honestly, it deserves more love. I had to leave this review because who knows how long I got left—this was part of a core memory, and I’m glad I found it.

Purchase for my two boys and they love it. They said it's one of the better assassin's Creed games.

I read mixed reviews on this movie, so wasn’t sure if I wanted to pick up this movie myself. I ultimately went ahead and ordered it, and I was glad I did.First, a disclaimer - the stories within this movie and the Assassin’s Creed games are fiction. As the opening disclaimer in the game reads: “Inspired by historical events and characters. This work of fiction was designed, developed, and produced by a multicultural team of various faiths and beliefs.” Don’t get upset if either the movie or the games misrepresent historical events or organizations and their motivations. It’s fiction.—————Some spoilers for those who have never played the games (skip to the paragraph with the two asterisks if you do not want to read the spoilers):The story revolves around an ongoing war between two secret societies: The Assassin’s and The Templars. The basic idea is that the Templars wish to achieve peace in the world through order (their order of course), and the Assassin’s basically fight to maintain people’s freedom. Those aligned with the Templars in present day have established a company called Abstergo which has developed computer technology that allows users the ability to relive our ancestor’s memories. In the video game, this is achieved through a computer program with VR technology called the Animus. In the movie, the Animus has been reimagined as a hulking machine with an arm that connects to the user, allowing them to perform many of their ancestor’s maneuvers firsthand. The idea behind the Animus remains the same, though. Abstergo has found certain people are best suited to relive these memories, and a direct descendant to the specific ancestor can provide the best connection (or synchronization, as they refer to it).Now some spoilers for the movie:The movie centers on a character named Cal Lynch, who supposedly is a direct descendant to Aguilar (who lived in the late 1400s), the last person on record as having possession of the “Apple of Eden”, a device said to have caused man’s first disobedience. The Templars want the device, because with it, they believe they can remove people’s free will, bringing peace to the world through order. Cal, a man with a troubled childhood and prone to violence, is brought to Abstergo against his will and is hooked up to the Animus so he can relive the memories of Aguilar to see where he hid the Apple of Eden (so the Templars will know where to find it in present day). Since he is at Abstergo against his will, gradually learning why he is there, he struggles with both helping them and enduring the Animus itself (evidently being hooked up to the device unwillingly can cause some mental side effects).—————* * Now my review on the movie. I thought the story was done well. Obviously with an origin movie (especially one with the complexities like the story behind the Assassin’s Creed franchise), there is going to be a lot of dialog to help explain the organizations, characters, and events in the games. That said, I wish there were less scenes that takes place in present day, and more action scenes in the past. The scenes from 1492 are amazing! I especially liked some of the references to the games (such as the wagons of hay, the eagle screech as Aguilar performs a leap of faith, etc). I did notice several instances throughout the movie where the scene would freeze for effect. Micheal Jackson would do the same in his performances, and called it “sizzle”. The idea was to build up the audience’s anticipation for what was to come, but in the movie, to me it breaks the pace of the movie, slowing it down, and making it feel more drawn out (and making the movie feel longer than it is).In the end, for the price, it’s a nice movie to add to your collection, but if you are even remotely unsure how you’ll like the movie, I’d recommend renting the movie first. I hope they make another movie. Now with the origin story established, they can concentrate more on the scenes that take place in the past.

interesting action movie / good special effects

Well It's been a long time that I have played Assassin's Creed, then again I have not played through the series of games, I picked up on the game and thought I would give it a look see with Assassin's Creed® Syndicate. So I'm not familiar with the Animus machine, in the game I played through a little bit it was much more futuristic and you could play as Aguilar or a female don't remember the name, but you played almost in parallel with the two game characters, It seems like this movie was taken from one of first games of AC.If this what they did, I don't think it started out with a preteen child, Games that are rated Adult or 17+ stay away from having children in them where they could be killed or come to hard, well so far that is what I have noticed and in this movie they started with a child, and I find that hard to believe, even so you had no clue why they wanted the child in 1400's during the Spanish Inquisition. But as to how the movie was made, it was very dark in many of scenes and yes I get the idea of hiding the Assassin's faces but even it being outside or inside it was like an endless dust storm. And as another review stated when there was the horse and wagon chase scenes there was almost zero dust? And for a two hour movie to much was spent on being in jail or a glass cage and talk of blood lines and trying to find a mystical object, now if this how the story line started with thew first AC game, I'm unsure.Also what I did notice is that they kelp talking of living in and fighting in the shadows, they was almost none of that in the movie, well except in the very end and was kind of like umm something is not right here. There were more fight scenes with few Assassin's against large armies that were set in the 1400's but in the present they seemed to have found the ancestors of the Assassin's and that was never even touched on as to how or how they knew and yet they were all in a prison type setting. I gave it three stars only because it was entertaining to a point and it did peak my interest as to how they were going to tell the story.I was not expecting the movie to be like any of the games, but the very beginning was all to confusing then a few scenes later they cut to a prison and a man getting ready to be put to death in Texas then you are taken down what seems like a 1990's time tunnel type FX only to have the death row inmate wake up in what looks like a hospital room. It took some time to have it even stated as to what they the Templars wanted, true I am not well verse on the back story of the Templars and the Assassin's as it is set in the earlier games, It took the back and forth in the way the scenes played out in the present day to the 1400's to figure out what was going on and that was a bit confusing at first. If this review seems a bit confusing, keep in mind that is how I felt watching this movie.Lets see if and when a sequel is made and what they do or plan to do, it would be nice but the story needs to be written better.Assassin's Creed

Really good for me

Cool show

Came with a steel case, very pleased A+++