Although this story of multiple timelines provides some interesting moments, the cryptic, excessive, often extremely muffled dialogue makes the film excruciatingly hard to follow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2018

I have never seen a group of A-list actors look and act so disinterested.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 19, 2017

One is left wracking brains as to why these talented people wasted so much time. It's not even the best videogame adaptation released in the past 12 months. Come back, Angry Birds. All is forgiven.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 10, 2017

Preposterous, under-plotted and surprisingly dull.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2017

Films based on video games are often derided as hackwork -- but Assassin's Creed is the most daring film yet from the Australian director Justin Kurze.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 6, 2017

The experience of watching Assassin's Creed is, one imagines, not dissimilar to slowly drowning in a giant slop bucket while desperately looking for a rope to climb out from the immense craptitude.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2016

This is a mega-budget blockbuster that boasts one of the worst MacGuffins in the history of cinema.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2016

A movie that can't work out whether it is a swashbuckling romp or a dystopian sci-fi drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2016

Up the pole, out to lunch and off the grid. It is mad, mannerist and unmanageable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2016

While Assassin's Creed is by no means the worst movie based on a video game -- it's not even the worst released this year -- it's not a very good movie, either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2016

This is nothing more than another video game adaptation that fails to rise to the challenge of being reborn for the cinema.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 23, 2016

There's a treat in store for anyone who takes a perverse pleasure in seeing truly terrible films, because Hollywood's latest video-game adaptation, Assassin's Creed, is a Christmas turkey with all the trimmings.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 23, 2016

An over-cast video game movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 23, 2016

Assassin's Creed mistakenly assumes that the plot is the most important element of its source material. Actually, it's the least.

| Original Score: D | Dec 23, 2016

Game over, man.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 22, 2016

I suppose you could say the film made me slightly more likely to play one of the games, but only because I'd do just about anything before I saw this movie again.

| Dec 22, 2016

[A] wan video-game adaptation revolving around some Knights Templar nonsense.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 22, 2016

In the game-to-film genre - which includes such memorable disasters as "Silent Hill" and "Hitman 47" - this is yet another disorganized, incoherent, nearly unwatchable entry.

| Dec 22, 2016

Fassbender, one of the producers, and Cotillard head a lavishly wasted cast. ... All score bonus points for keeping a straight face throughout.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 22, 2016

So what if philosophical depths are out of the film's reach, there's a seed of ambition in this one that suggests the transfer of a video game to the screen doesn't always have to be a suicide mission. And that's something.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 21, 2016