First Critics' Reviews for ASSASSIN'S CREED
Rotten Tomatoes: 16% Approval Rating (4 out of 25 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Assassin's Creed is arguably better made (and certainly better cast) than most video game adaptations; unfortunately, the CGI-fueled end result still is still a joylessly overplotted slog.
New York Daily News - If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you may be confused by what’s going on and why anyone would even bother playing it. If you have played, you'll wonder how the moviemakers could mess things up so badly and squander the game’s rich tapestry of stories.
1.5/5
CinemaBlend.com - The hope and promise of Assassin's Creed ultimately flitters away thanks to its underwhelming action, incomprehensible plot, and repetitive structure, and it ultimately only adds further weight to the curse of the video game theory.
1.5/5
IGN Movies - Though it’s bolstered by some glorious action sequences and a stellar cast that really gives us their all, the lack of any levity whatsoever in Assassin's Creed amounts to a soulless experience that wastes its potential.
6.5/10
Collider - The big screen adaptation of Assassin’s Creed had a lot going for it and even finds a great deal of success on the technical front, but when you couldn’t care less if the characters live or die, the movie is dead in the water.
2.5/5
ScreenCrush - Assassin’s Creed makes you actively work for its pleasures, and it’s heartening to see a film of this scale that’s strange and ambitious and doesn’t spoon-feed viewers every little detail. Maybe they don’t entirely succeed, but you appreciate the effort.
6/10
Forbes - It's the Anakin Skywalker of video game movies, a promising project meant to redeem a bedeviled sub-genre that merely leaves it covered in more darkness.
2/10
The Playlist - It's a good thing these actors play this material so persuasively straight, because if you give even an inkling of thought to the film's near-indecipherable plot, the philosophical implications may well be unsettling.
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