The worst way to adapt a video game

| Aug 7, 2023

I had fun with “Assassin’s Creed” particularly with its wildly unique (and admittedly wacky) story. It also doesn’t hurt to have this level of acting talent in front of the camera.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Kurzel's brooding, internalized work often appears through a literal or figurative haze, which doesn't help matters.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 5, 2022

Assassin's Creed is many things, and none of them good. Visually, it's the ugliest movie of 2016 - and keep in mind that I saw Robert De Niro's prosthetic penis in Dirty Grandpa.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 17, 2021

Might be the best video-game adaptation there is. Certainly neck-and-neck with "Resident Evil: Extinction." There's a purity to how it doesn't pretend to characterize beyond narrative aims. It's 13% closing credits. It's kind of glorious, really.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2021

When the actors are not talking Assassin's Creed is quite silly and a bit of fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

This movie was better cast and better made than any video game movie you might have seen in the past 5 years.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 20, 2020

Well, let's go ahead and outlaw video game adaptations right now.

| Nov 10, 2020

The scenes in the past are fun but short-lived, otherwise there were times when I just felt like looking at my bookshelves to give me something more interesting to do...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2020

Gamers will have to keep waiting, because not even two acting powerhouses managed to save this disastrous film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 2, 2020

This movie felt really old.

| May 8, 2020

This movie was so boring.

| May 8, 2020

A visually murky, nonsensical work that has somehow attracted a large number of really talented actors to run through the paces of a story whose stakes are an utter mystery.

| Apr 29, 2020

It's a film that doesn't even have the self-respect to bore, but seems intent on making its audience angry with it instead.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 3, 2019

Nothing tempers expectations for a film's quality like seeing "based on the hit video game" tucked away on the poorly-produced poster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Assassin's Creed is a train-wreck that commits the cardinal sin of being boring on top of making no sense.

| May 24, 2019

Had the narrative only lived up to the quality of the stunts we'd be on to something great.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2019

A big pile of non-interactive, non-engaging nonsense.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 25, 2019

Assassin's Creed is not the top-to-bottom disaster some of my peers have painted it as, nor is it bonkers enough to suggest a forthcoming critical re-evaluation... either of those things would've been preferable to something this dour and repetitive.

| Apr 25, 2019

Everything about this noisy, shallow mess of a movie is so convoluted and so dreadful that I doubt even die-hard fans of the video game on which its based would find much to enjoy in this cinematic voyage of sloppiness.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 25, 2019