Assassin's Creed

Parental Rating: PG-13

Contains: Language    Violence    Adult Content    

Jill's Review

Opens December 21, 2016

Runs 115 minutes

Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is used by a secret organization to help them recover the Apple of Eden. This symbol supposedly holds the power of free will and whoever has the Apple, controls the world (or something like that). Sofia (Marion Cotillard) hooks Callum up to a sci-fi/virtual-reality/time machine thing and soon he is in 15th Century Spain, spying on the Templars to try to see who has the Apple. It turns out that Callum is an ancestor of the great Aguilar, a member of the secret Assassin society that protects the Apple. He is able to read the genetic memories of Aguilar and trace the Apple. Will he recover the Apple for the modern day Templars or protect it as his ancestors have done for centuries?

I thought this movie had promise. The previews looked action-packed and the cast, including Fassbender, Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling and Brendan Gleeson was top-notch. I never played the video game so I had no idea what this was really about. It did not really do anything for me. I thought the ideas were good but the film bogged down in the middle. It was very average. Unless you are a diehard fan of the video games, I would say skip this one.

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