646f9e108c This is the quest of the Templars searching the mysterious relic called 'the apple of Eden' which holds the key to controlling mankind's free will itself and an assassin's attempt to stop them. As a young boy Callum Lynch witnessed his father murder his mother. Now, 30 years later, he is being executed for murder. However, the execution is faked and, instead of dying, he is transported to a special facility. It turns out that he is descended from a 15th century master-assassin, Aguilar, a member of the Assassin's Brotherhood. The plan is to train him in the ways of his forefather. This will enable him to fight the arch-enemy of his forefather, the Templars. well, I have to say this film is not that goodI expected. If you have not played the game, you may find the story telling is a little hard to follow. A little disappointed to this film maybe because I have too high expectation due to the success of the game. I think the main problem is the ways the director used to change between the history and now. Maybe just focus on the history will be better instead of mixing in any modern elements. you may say if they do so, the film will not follow the setting according to the Ubisoft, but who cares? I believe most players and audience will focus more on the time when we are in the past and do assassination instead of conspiracy of abstergo. This movie is solidly and well executed. The creators played it safe to the sentiments of the games' series fansthe story features pretty much the same elementsthe first of the assassin's creed games. The main characters are relatively well developed but feel like an intro to a much bigger arc of the series of movies. Saying that, the story of the movie was completed and didn't feel like an unnecessary cliffhanger although it did feel a bit rushed at the end. I have to give a significant credit to the creative teams that made the costumes, the locales and made it all lookit did - the movie is eye-candy, very detailed and true to what we have learned to expect from the games. The stunt work was also amazing andtrivia mentions 80% of the movie has been done without CGI including a stunt man performing the leap of faith (longest jump in ages lasting 3 seconds and reaching some 61 mph). To those who played the games: the movie's version of the animus was actually a better version than the "lay me down and see the past" device from the games giving a much more realistic understanding of how the skills of the ancestors would become the bodily skills of the descendant - i.e. through practicing those moves! The appearance of the holograms to others was a bit of a loose end but I hope the future movies might shed some light on this. I sincerely hope someday we can have such a virtual reality monster machinethe animus! In Assassin’s Creed, Michael Fassbender is like the ultimate special effect. Just by showing up, he confers respectability on two hours of semi-coherent overly art-directed video-game sludge.
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