When I first went into this movie....Nope. Not that type of review.This movie (to me at least) is fairly interesting, and quite entertaining. There's an organization trying to uncover secrets about the history of the assassins, by having them act out the events through a different take on time travel. You have a criminal being "forced" to have a part in that. The best parts of the movie are easily the events of the past: Assassins on the run.In present day, while the movie still keeps me interested, it just feels like it was meant to keep the movie running to its 1hr and 45 minute runtime. The movie doesn't really have muchc going on throughout it; the main goal just being to uncover a particular secret. While it is a step in the right direction for Video game movies, its not big enough to start making them "amazing", or "outstanding".

This film brought shame to the franchise and must put a lot of people off the incredible Ubisoft games, no story, no violence where as the games are astonishingly violent and there is non of the original characters from the games in it pretty much

Young Callum Lynch's father kills his mother. As an adult, Cal is executed for murder, following which a secret organisation recruits/kidnaps him because he is a genetic descendant of Aguilar, a Spanish assassin from the 16th century. The Assassins' Guild has been at war with the Templars for centuries over the Eden Apple - the Templars want to use it to remove free will to stop violence, the Assassins want to stop the Templars, and Cal can be regressed to Aguilar who was the last person known to have been in possession of the Eden Apple.That is actually a halfway decent concept on which to base a story. So it's a shame that the film delivers it in a fairly muddled and inconsequential fashion. The action sequences, whether in the present-day facility where Cal finds himself, or in medieval Spain, are well staged if not always completely clear - the special effect which shows Cal fighting while attached to the Animus (the doodad which facilitates the regression) interfaced with the actual combat involving Aguilar is more distracting than effective.The colour palette, as is the fashion, is drab and desaturated, dull and shadowy. Coupled with the tendency for characters to wear the same thing - pale pastel bodysuits in present-day, hoodies in Spain - it isn't always easy to tell who is who. And, even when you can tell, so what? Aguilar does a great deal of running, jumping, and fighting with a young woman who he obviously cares about but, as we never find out who she is or what their relationship is (other than that they are both Assassins), why should we care? Cal is given little by way of background, the nature of the Eden Apple and how it works is vague - it turns out that it emits a greenish light and vapour which doesn't appear to have any immediate effect, which is puzzling given that it is supposedly a DNA map - the identities and driving forces for a lot of the characters are touched on fleetingly at best and, as the film finishes, you are left with a bucketful of unanswered questions (was Callum actually executed or not. for one).The excellent cast is given little to do which a considerably less excellent cast couldn't have done just as well. I suppose their names on the posters put bums on seats.Unless your shopping list has only one thing on it - "Chase/combat action" - you are better off watching someone play through the game. As a film, this is a deeply unsatisfying experience.And don't bother with the 3D.

It's not the Video Games but for Movie Fanatics who don't play Video Games will Enjoy this Movie and I actually watched it Twice to enjoy it hopefully we get sequels or a Series on Netflix would love to see the Live action story of the Frye Twins and the other assassins It Might be the 1st Film but for The Common movie fanatic to actually understand the franchise than the typical gamer they must make more films it was a Good Adventure and I watched it in IMAX