The Assassin's Creed Movie Doesn't Sound Too Sharp

still going to watch it at some point and form my opinion.

Haven't played the games, won't watch the movie.

I wonder if any of those reviewers went in blind to the overall idea of the games?

I've never played an AC game, but I've been following the series enough to be prepared for all the craziness. I would imagine if you went in blind expecting a movie about assassins along the lines of Hitman that all of the "travel back in time into your ancestors body to fight the war between the Templars and the assassins" might be a bit confusing in a 90 minute movie. But I would think fans of the series being aware of the back story might find it easier to follow.

I might see it at some point, just to have something to talk with others about, but I really have little desire to do so.

@kyleforrester87 It did look really good! Looking forward to that much more

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To be honest, I don't know what to expect from an Assassin's Creed flick. The premise itself matches up with the games at least, and I'm sure Fassbender will give a good performance. Other than that, I'm not sure. A full, good AC plot might be hard to do in a movie.

Please flop so this cash cow dies young.

The worst part is that Transformers has terrible reviews and we are in the 4th movie now.

@sinalefa Only 4? Isn't 5 due out soon? I think I've only seen the first 2. Or maybe 3. I want to catch up, but they are all 2 1/2 hours long, I need more 90 minute movies.

@kyleforrester87 Funny, I was thinking about Kingsglaive but I couldn't think of a way to fit it into my comment. I'll be watching that probably next Tuesday afternoon, so many Christmas gifts I need to work on the schedule for 3 of us fighting for PS4 time. First world problems.

Can't say that I'm surprised since the trailers didn't impressed me at all. :/

@Ralizah lol same

Ha! Film is staying faithful to the games then!...

A Hat-trick. R&C, Warcraft and now AC. Not surprised really, despite the great cast.

@rjejr I think you've hit the nail on the head there. This is a problem for a lot of video game to movie adaptations. Games usually tell their stories over a few dozen hours whereas a movie just has 90 to 120 minutes. Games can have extra ways of telling the story to add loads of details, like in-game encyclopedias and readable journal entries.

Also, to be honest, all you really have to do to watch a film is sit down and face a certain direction. Games have a higher mental barrier to entry in many cases. It tends to mean that game plots can be more complex and unusual than the typical blockbuster. Similar to books vs films as well.

I think Warcraft had some merit. I wonder why it is that comics to movies to so well yet Games to movies seem to suck - as do movies to games.

Any news about an upcoming patch?

So it's just like the games, right?

So, pure rubbish, just like the games, lol, the millions wasted on tripe like this....😂

I am a big movie fan and I had high hopes as both DIrector and Producer/Star are high calibre. Their Macbeth was excellent and they helped in the development of AC.

I think there are several problems in adapting a game - firstly, in the majority of games, plot is there to explain gameplay mechanics. The actual idea of AC is a bit barmy but what it allows the game to do is give players a chance to experience different time periods and sustain multiple large games in a franchise. As a gamer, you accept plot holes because it allows gameplay.

This is tricky to turn into a film where suspension of disbelief is that little bit harder. In a game, yes no one can take that amount of damage and then just get better by standing still or taking a potion but it fits the gameplay mechanic. You can't do that in a film.

If you strip away the gameplay, even games like UC and TLOU, both excellent narrative based sets of games wouldn't necessarily make a great movie because the plots are hardly original in a filmic sense. I'd love a bioshock movie but how do you build that world, throw in Adam, the Big Daddies, Little Sisters, Atlas and all the plot twists and not make a mess of a film?

Personally, I think games might work better on the small screen.

I thought it wasn't out until the 1st of January?

@Rudy_Manchego agreed 100%. The hard part is not so much the length of games to movies transfer, like books, but making sense of the game play. I'm hoping the tv/movie/video game adaptation of Patrick Rothfuss's book series King Killer Chronicles will not suffer from such a transfer, albeit book to movie, not video game to movie.

"The film's plot is a shambles"

kinda like the games then

After seeing the trailer (and the music tracks that have nothing to do with a time-line film like itself), it looked horrible...very cheaply done (which I don't think it was) and just plain bad acting all around. Not many games to movies have I enjoyed (Liked the first Silent Hill, hated the second...Mortal Kombat was good when it came out, looks horrible now, Super Mario Bros had an entertainment value to it, but still...weird, Prince Of Persia was boring and dull to me and the others...mess). I never really had high hopes for this to begin with. To me, if you want to make a big budget game to movie, you need not only a great director and great actors, but also the proper writers (bringing some of the game writers in with it) and the great visual arts directors (for the sets and props). Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Ron Howard's teams would do good at this. Spielberg could really bring something like Uncharted or even Legend Of Zelda alive (even though Uncharted would be close to an Indiana Jones film). James Cameron would be good at the action titles, and Ron Howard would be good at bringing the more down-to-earth family adventure ones (the Grinch was great in visuals). Before a game is even mentioned about being made, why doesn't hollywood look at that, instead of just wanting the money because hollywood is completely out of ideas and just want to do sequels, reboots, remakes and (the newest thing) bring a movie that's 30+ years old and make a sequel like people care (hint...Goonies 2, Beetlejuice 2 and a Ferris Bueller Reboot that has been announced or mentioned).

The Assassin's Creeds games are pretty good, with some good historical facts piled into them, but it never looked like it could work as a film...some games are left to be just games, just like some movies are left to be just movies...not games.

@rjejr

I was thinking of the ones already released. Nowadays people think that the longer a movie is, more bang for your buck, even if it sucks.

@ZurapiiYohane64 I'd start with AC2. The first game is ok but repetitive and Ubisoft really nailed down the AC formula with the second game. Also, it's the start of the Ezio trilogy, so you will understand the entire story arc if you want to play more AC games. You can pick them up used for next to nothing for the PS3 or you can get the entire collection on PS4.

Black Flag is also really fun, but it is very different from earlier games with a stronger emphasis on being a pirate than an assassin.

No surprise that 'professional' critics dislike this game-movie. From the trailers it all looks interesting and good apart from the fact that none of the trailers I've seen appear to show any plot or cohesive story in any detail when it comes to the actually history assassin bit. The abstergo plot seems good but the assassin one so far seems empty, I'll probably watch it anyway.

What i've seen from the trailer it looks crap.

This may get the same reaction as suicide squad, although suicide squad wasn't actually a sh*t movie it just wasn't a good movie but because it has tons of money thrown at it then everyone feels justified in slamming it to bits.

The AC plot in general is off the rails. Them trying to cram even AC1 into a movie and have it make "sense" is impossible. I've heard other sources say the plot is ok for what it is but the dialogue is a bit hokey.

Heard most of the movie was outside the animus, knew it would be bad upon hearing that although I was expecting it to be like 5-6 not 3-4 out 10

So the game franchise with one of the worst stories around has a movie with a story, huh? Honestly, is there someone that actually enjoyed the story parts of AC?

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