Why The Assassin's Creed Movie FAILED...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2023
- Assassin's Creed's one and only live-action movie debuted in 2016 and was met with some negative feedback to say the least. I decided to rewatch the Assassin's Creed Movie in 2023 and look back on why the film failed and what it could have done better. And even though this film was a failure in terms of ratings and box office performance, I believe it truly wasn't all that bad...
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I think I'd have ditched the modern day entirely. Set it up like the books and tell a fully fleshed story in a historical setting, let audiences get attached to Aguilar and the ancestor memories, then (and it could even be a post credits scene) have Cal wake up in the Animus at the end to set up a sequel.
Exactly what I was thinking, but only issue I can probably see is that in the games, the subject using the animus can’t stay in it for too long or they will suffer the bleeding effect(if it’s just slightly too long) or even have their minds split(if it’s way too long). So going through an entire life sequence of Aguilar would have killed Cal essentially 😂. Please correct me if I’m wrong though, just what I thought about
@@TehxDraGzyou are right
@JhonArceane exactly
@@TehxDraGz I agree, but I think you could perhaps circumnavigate that in two ways. Either Aguilar takes periodic 'rests' during the movie's runtime leading to a dream-like or nightmare sequence of things happening in the modern day, or you do it the way AC1 did with about five minutes of disorientation at the beginning, a modern day section at the beginning then spend time dipping in and out of the Animus. Newer models allow subjects to spend longer times in there, just have the Animus be less invasive like Helix or something.
That's why clever film makers build a point the protagonist must pass, and then follow it with a worthy montage along with some narration to move he story past those long game parts.
I think Assassin's Creed has too many layers for a two hour movie: historical plot, modern day plot, Templars, Assassins, Abstergo, etc. The books basically stick fully to the historical setting, which I think would've been the way to go for the movie. A television series would give them a better opportunity to dive into all aspects of an Assassin's Creed storyline, so hopefully the Netflix one comes to fruition.
I did think it was cool how they tied this movie to AC Origins with the Aguilar skin, and revealing that Layla helped design the Animus from the movie. Also, Cal is Arno's descendant which, as an Arno fan, I like the implication of.
Exactly. People underestimate the hardships of making a satisfactory AC movie, considering everything it has to achieve within a 2~2.5 hour runtime: introducing a main character from the present day timeline, introducing a main character from the past, introducing the millenia long Assassins/Templars conflict, introducing the Animus technology, introducing the Pieces of Eden, all the while telling character arcs for both the present day MC and history MC that stand on their own.
Considering all this, I think Justin Kurzel's film is okay. Not great but not terrible either. I especially like the soundtrack which elevates a lot of scenes. Ultimately what was really proven is that a movie is not a suitable format for Assassin's Creed.
After the movie I tried to explain what is AC to my family and I find myself lost at where to start😅
The Warcraft movie suffered the same fate. 2 hours wasn't enough time to tell the story they wanted to tell in a coherent storyline that flowed well.
Now that you mention it, it would probably better to make a tv show with a couple seasons if they want to delve more into each branching part of AC lore
i did not realise that until you said it
Really goes to show just how important writing is for a movie. This movie has some amazing visuals, a stacked cast of actors all trying their best, some cool action scenes and an amazing premise. However the writing and character building is so pisspoor it just fails for both ac fans and regular movie goers, which is a shame because as I said: the premise of ac is badass. Even to haters of the franchise. I remember when it was announced everyone was preaching how this was the movie that would break the videogame-movie adaptation curse and to quote Obi-Wan: it ultimately became the very thing it swore to destroy.
The main reason it didn't resonate with fans was because of the History bit.
Like you said, many of us play these games to immerse ourselves in historical places as an assassin. The modern day plot is usually like a subplot where most people never even log out of the animus unless the game needs you to.
The movie gave the most appealing thing ,The past, the least amount of screen time and gave the "subplot" the most screentime.
The biggest issue I had with the movie was how rushed it felt in the second half. Cal joining the assassins felt forced, the rebellion at Abstergo happens with an assassin dying and the moment is treated like a big deal but we didn't really know the guy that much, and I felt the Templars found the Apple of Eden too quickly while in the video games it took them longer. Either the movie needed a longer runtime or be split into two movies. I also agree there wasn't much focus on the Animus as there should have been.
I did enjoy seeing Cal going through the bleeding effect and the setting and action scenes were great, besides being fast paced. Also Sophia being hinted at being an assassin was a neat reveal and would have been interesting to see play out. Lastly, now learning the actor that played Mad Eye Moody was in this movie is cool to hear about.
The finding of the apple should have been the last scene and cut! But what do I know about movies having watched them since the 60's :P
Splitting it into two parts is risky because if 1st sucks and flops nobody Wil go see second
@@wingedhussar1453while this is true, I think they should slow the pacing down and take their time with the story kinda like the Lord Of the Rings to really flesh out the characters and premise of the story itself
I thought the movie was pretty good, but I do think it would have gone over better as a tv series. They can flesh out the characters better and go deeper into the story line. Every year they could have done a new era.
As an AC fan since day 1, I enjoyed the movie. Although it’s impossible to cover the AC world well in just a movie, I saw the movie as more of a “single mission”. It has some back story, dialogue, a main target to assassinate, objectives and then other things or people to deal with.
Iron man wanted his 'Animus' robotics back. Even Cameron got what an Animus is in AVATAR . . . .
That’s a good was to describe it. It was a beautifully made movie with huge production values, but the story felt disjointed and lacked the big emotional beats the way it was filmed. They overcomplicated it.
To me I felt like they spent way too much time in the present day and not enough time in the past, it would have been nice to have seen more of Aguilar's life as an assassin rather then focus on the modern day stuff. I will admit it was cool seeing a bunch of the subjects and later on you got to see who their ancestors were.
This is why Fassbender should have been the Assassin or both. You don't put your star in the sideshow . . . .
@@terrylandess6072 exactly
I can’t believe they couldn’t match the quality of the opening cutscene in Revelations. That animation is god-tier and will always be the closest thing to an AC movie for me
It's also funny how the Revelations CGI trailer is pretty much the only one of the series that's tied to the game it's based off, I'm honestly not even sure if the other CGI trailers are even canon at this point
The whole 'wire-rig fighting in real life while also hooked up to the past' part is painful to watch and was such a terrible idea... As soon as I saw that in the trailers I immediately thought "Nope I'm out, this is gonna be dumb as hell" and I know other people who had the exact same reaction.
Definitely the worst part
One thing I would’ve loved to see in the movie is a long continuous one shot of Aguilar assassinating everyone in a temple. In my opinion that’s the best way to show off stealth in a movie
Doing a movie based on Shao Jun would not only be easy one for Ubisoft, but also the the most obvious choice. She has plenty of source material to work from. Bring back Michelle Lin and minimize the modern day setting, if not outright remove it completely.
One reason I feel like is because they tried too hard to act like they didn’t base a bunch of ideas were from a video game
I do hope they try again with a cinematic AC adaptation, as AC games *almost* always have the most beautiful stories and worlds. Maybe they could use the "bleeding effect" to make scenes that tie in with both the past and present. Showing a small cut to the present setting up a timeline allowing the viewer to infer what's in-between each cut. Allowing a present day story whist focusing on the (much more wanted) past.
As a long time fan of the game series since literally day one, I never understood the hate this film got. It's amazing. We could knit pick ANY film to death if we truly wanted, and I've seen a lot of people even bitch about the effects in this one. How? It's visually stunning. And this film is absolutely mind blowing when you learn basically all these fights and stunts are REAL. There was like one CGI stunt in the entire film and it's not the real leap of faith. Everything else is real, even the slack line stunt that lasted all of 3 seconds on screen. It's just incredible what they pulled off in this film and no one really appreciates it.
I grew up with Jackie Chan. Stunt work is different today. Look at Tom Cruise.
Thank you for going through the pain of watching this for our entertainment💀
its not that bad
Underrated movie
I swear everyone just hates Ubisoft because everything they make is mid now our days
I watched it it’s not that bad. Especially when u learn the animus they use in there is actually canon. Layla helped build it. Believe it or not
Movie was awesome 🔥
I agree with you. I saw the movie in theatres and I own a copy on DVD. I don't hate it at all. In fact, I do like it. It's not a great movie by any movies, but I don't think it's a bad movie.
I binge played these a couple of months ago. Had no idea there was a movie! (There’s a show coming too?) I’ll have to check the movie out! I really enjoy good bad movies or even bad good movies if they’re funny enough. Assassins Creed definitely has the potential to be on the big screen! 💪
It’s crazy cause the movies cannon to the games it’s even more interesting that it’s confirmed that Arno is Cals ancestor you can actually see him towards the end when he’s inducted my his ancestors
It's wild how strong the foundations of this movie were and how many bad choices were made (particularly the writing and casting Marion Cotillard).
Thank you bro i was wondering why it fell because i enjoyed it
Huh the video came out 2 mins ago
@@hiddensyninhes just built different
he watched it in 20x speed
Aguilar’s Outfit is actually usable by Connor in AC 3 Remastered… :)
I think a movie or tv show on basim before mirage and in between mirage and Valhalla (and what happens to him in both games of course) would be cool
I think the main fault of this film, besides the “childish” rating, is the fact that in a film based on the Assassin's Creed franchise, the action doesn't take place long enough in the past. My personal opinion is that they should have made a film where the action took place entirely in the past, then ended the film with Michael Fassbender's character abruptly waking up in the present, discovering that he is inside the Animus and not in a dream.
I super loved this movie, I saw it in the theatre and when he fully connects with the animus I found myself in tears. Having watched it with people who did not know the lore, I could tell that the modern day part of the story was necessary for them to understand the time travel of it. And from the end of the movie, it is clear that they wanted to make more. I think they went heavy on modern day to draw in more people who do not know yet the franchise - which is the case with most adaptations. But it was interesting to listen to this video, I enjoy a good discussion, I also don't think it helps to hate on it in any way, there billions of far worse adaptations out there.
it focused on the worst thing about the franchise, the modern day story.
I’m admittedly torn on the rating aspect. I guess it’d come down to how they use the higher rating. Like, is it used to have brutality just for the sake of it? Is there a purpose to that violence being on screen? Etc.
A thought I did just have in terms of modern/historical balancing, whether a show or movie, is kinda like the comics or how the TTRpG presents it? Person on the street gets rescued by the Assassins (instead of taken by Templars) due to their ancestry, use the past, and have them actually use the modern day to have some action as well so it’s not just exposition. Weave in moments of an Assassin Cell like Desmond’s missions in AC3. Almost like a reverse of The Matrix?
As someone that discovered the Assassin's Creed franchise when I was 9-10 years old (I'm 19 now) with the first contact with the franchise being Unity I agree 100% with you the movie wasn't horrible but it wasn't definitely a masterpiece it was acceptable but they surely wasted a lot of potential focusing mostly on the modern day because as you said what most of us fans love about Assassin's Creed is the ancestors story seeing the memories of those past events and they could have found a way to explain a lot of important things about the lore to the people that don't know the franchise without relying 100% percent on Callum asking things to other people in the present.
Basically the conclusion I get is that what made the movie fail was not just the fact it was released at a time were people were very sceptical when movie adaptations of video games were released because most of them are horrible but also the fact that it looks like they didn't plan things correctly and wasted good characters and potential but personally I didn't hate the movie I actually liked it.
If Unity was your introduction to the franchise, then I feel sorry for you
@@unicorntomboy9736 Well the story isn't one of the best of the franchise for sure but I like it and in my opinion Arno is at least a top 6 best protagonists he's a very charismatic character and you can see his personality evolve and mature throughout the story and everyone knows that Unity's parkour is the best of the whole saga and the fact it was used as base for the parkour of other games of the saga (Origins for example) is proof of it. Resuming even though the story is not one of the best and the fact that the game got overshadowed due to the amount of bugs it had when it released the game had a reasonably good history and a good protagonist and it's parkour is the best of the saga.
@@rodrigosezequiel Glitch face bug still appears in my nightmares
@@unicorntomboy9736 unity is a great game... stop trying to be edgy
@@wgnd1614 Syndicate was better. That is a hill I am willing to die on
Also I think that the directors forgot that the whole Desmond part of the story that was focused mostly on modern time is the part fans liked the least 😅😅😅 probably would've been for the best to axe the whole modern world animus simulation part of the story and kept it set on the setting the assassin's were in
If only there had been a chance for another AC movie.
It'd be nice if the story was grounded solely on the past, mostly focused on the protagonist will a less modern day reference i know that its going off the theme but an Assassin's Creed story focused on the Assassin and his story and battle itself would be pretty interesting.
The Aguilar robes in the games are still amazing, used them a lot in Origins
I love this movie.. only problem I have is the Aguilar storyline and how it was wasted
I just rewatched it two days ago and, even if i still like it and don't think it's the dumsterfire of a movie the Internet makes it to be, it's nevertheless a flawed movie.
As you said, Fassbender didn't have the opportunity to flex his acting skills (tbh none of the cast had).
The visuals are cool but a bit janky at time, mainly because of the constant smoke effects.
I really wished it got a better reception so we could have more outside-of-games medias and not stay in the actual state of limbo concerning the different projects.
Shame...
Love your video and keep up the great work you are awesome and tbh I didn't like this movie
I would love to see a movie with Ezio and Bayek. Abubakar Salim is a great actor, he could reprise his character Bayek, on the big screen and I believe it would be an awesome movie to watch. ^^
Just to clarify. 18% on rotten tomatoes just means that 18% of critic reviews were positive and 82% were negative. I doesn't mean they gave the movie 1.8 out of 10
The movie was shit
I feel like it would’ve done a lot better if they saved some of the modern day story like Cal assassinating Rikkin for a sequel so Aguilar gets more focus and you can feel the scope of the Templars that is present when there are more targets in the games. It might have even done better to have the historical characters speak English so the audience can understand better without looking at the subtitles, and that could be written off as Abstergo translating the actual words for Cal. But at the end of the day, a sequel could be awesome with Aguilar hunting down Torquemada while Sofia tries to take revenge against Cal. I few like an Unity sequel could tie into this movie as well, as Arno is Cal’s ancestor, and maybe the anonymous initiate could be given a full character and meet Cal.
I literally don’t remember 2 scenes from the movie and I saw it when it came out. And I’ve been a fan of AC from childhood.
Will you make a video on the watch dogs movie when it comes out?
Hey master assassin I think the whole point they talked so much about what the apple could do was because they expected to make a sequel for the film
This movie was my entrance to Assassin's Creed and I'll forever love it
I think it just hit a bad compromise between new viewers and AC veterans. If you’re an AC veteran then stuff like completely changing how the Animus works felt jarring, and all the little easter eggs couldn’t make up for that. If you were a new viewer then you didn’t care about the changes, but you always felt like you were missing context only found in the games. In the end everyone just ends up more frustrated than entertained. They needed to more firmly fall on one side or the other, either make a love letter to the big fans or make something for everyone, they tried to split the difference and it just didn’t work out very well.
I remember seeing the movie close to when it came out. What I remember most about the movie was not remembering anything about it. It was unbelievably forgettable for me.
I think that they should make a movie out of a short story line like mirage, just small straight to the point of finding clues and destroying the union one by one instead of focusing on present sequel of hopping in and out the animus. But this can full flesh be a 1000000% percent better
When the hell did the movie happen I swear I have every game and know all about it but I never knew about a movie???
If they make another version of this movie then just don't explain anything to the audience just try to tell it by the story you have made for it also I would be surprised if they make a game out of this first movie but more of Aguilar's life on how he became an assassin to an master assassin like Ezio
Does using the shortcut option to fate of Atlantis disable NG+ because the option to start a NG+ is not showing on my main menu and I have completed both Legacy of The First Blade and Fate of Atlantis DLC.
7:05 don’t jumpscare me like that 😭
Just glad you didn't say it needed to be an adaptation of one of the games. I play video games for the story so I don't want a rehash of a story that I can just played
The movie wasnt bad, it was ok. Not good, but ok.
I don’t understand why they never just retold Desmond’s story and then expanded upon that ending of the AC3
Its just sad, because i think it has a lot of potencial still. You are totally right about the motive of the flop, totally agreed.
When I watched Assassin's Creed in January 2017, I think it became my favorite as a non game fan and a player.
When I played AC Odyssey for the first time, I think the mistake AC Movie did was project memories, wake up Cal, project again, and wake up Cal again. It's repetitive and feels like seeing TH-cam ads every twenty minutes.
the only thing the movie established that I have no issue with is Jeremy Irons as Alan Rikkin.
In fact, I could see nobody else's casted as Rikkin from now on
Watched this movie opening night thought it was just okay and never watched it again lol
I have played every AC game multiple tims but still havent seen this. I actually forgot about it. I might rent it one night this week.
I think the AC movie sort of reveals the inherent issues with AC as a franchise-it’s story is consistently the weakest aspect of the franchise. The modern day element is awful, the bland “templars VS assassins” story isn’t nearly as cool as it thinks it is and the whole animus concept is awful in the games already (why am I playing a game about a guy in a simulation? Just put the game IN the time period)
Assassins creed’s strength is its interactive simulations of real world time periods. Being able to walk around renaissance-era Italy or the golden age of piracy.
Nobody outside of AC fans cares about anything other than the gameplay fantasy of the time periods in each game…. So making a movie is an awful idea conceptually since it removes the only truly great part of the series-the interactivity. You’re stuck with the dull melodrama of the Templars and Assassins, the dumb animus idea, the eyerollingly boring apple of Eden stuff, etc
It’s sort of like the Halo TV show which put way too much focus on aspects of the IP that are sorta the weakest part of Halo (spartans being sad/emotional)
Worse part is I didn't find it bad, the modern day was sluggish tho. Maybe if they worked on the modern day plot and focus more on the historic setting it'll take off.
If one were approched as the writer for an Assassin's Creed animated tv series, what would you cone up with?
I would essentially adapt the first crusade novel with Altiar, who would be the protagonist of the tv series, exploring a large portion of his life that wasn't shown in the games.
I for sure wanted to finnish Connors story since he in the game was non emotional character for the most of the Time
@@z12ytb Personally I would just adapt the novel and make Haythem the protagonist
@@unicorntomboy9736 that's actually really great idea since we can see everything that connor did from templar perspective how it affected them
@@z12ytb The novel delved so much further into Haythem as a character, such as his childhood in London with his much older sister Jennifer, as well as his overall true thoughts and feelings about certain events, things that are not apparent in the AC game he was in, such as wanting to kill the guard that insults Zio, as well as his trip to Constantinople or Demaacus with his close friend Holden to rescue Jennifer and kill Reginald Bitch, which isn't seen in the game
Also it reveals that Haythem was, subconsciously, a tad envious and jealous of Connor, who represented who he should have been, i.e an Assassin, and how that life was robbed from him by Reginald Birch.
@@unicorntomboy9736 i guess it's one of the reasons haythem is remembered i never reat ac novels from my understanding there is one also about Altair after ac 1 or mby it was before
Then again i should try to find them somewhere just read it
Idk if they are good or bad
Tbh I really loved the film it was definitely an Assassin's Creed movie it depicted the game pretty well in comparison to all other video game adaptations and this movie has got to be the best one imo. It was no means a perfect ac movie but it did an amazing job cramming the lore of ac in a 90 minute runtime which also explains the sacrifices the movie took due to a very small runtime but it did a pretty good job especially with the modern sequences they established great world building in the film and it was supposed to be fleshed out by a sequel i do agree with some disappointed with the film for focusing too much on the present day but i think it was necessary for the movie and to this day i still watch this film and think about the what could've beens if this movie franchise went on but i'm glad everything in the film was canon plus maybe we can still see callum's story continue with the netflix acquisition.
Unrelated to this video, but master assassin is boutta have a field day with the new AC mirage update
Like some others have said, AC simply has too big of a plot to reasonably make into a movie. Have to deal with multiple assassination targets including each individual build up and a Grandmaster to top it off. A past storyline that's also able to tell a good character rich story. A modern day plot that literally introduces a whole new element and stuff regarding pieces of eden and the Isu. It just doesn't work as a movie.
The animus in this movie IS actually talked about in the game. At least in Origins as far as my knowledge. If you read the info on Layla’s laptop it brings this specific animus up (with pictures). Not sure if theres any other info in the other games ive personally been playing the shit out of origins lol
I liked the movie, i've watched it after this video. I love the games since day one and didn't want to get disappointed. But i agree, i think the power of de games is the fact that you're the one exploring. I love the fact that i'm the one discovering tombs, i'm the one meeting historical figures, that i'm the one running in historical sites. That's the whole thing. I even think Ubisoft knows it, they had the whole "History is your playground" campaign. That's the whole working concept behind the franchise, what makes the brand so powerfull.
doesnt the animus in the movie look like the big tree that puts eivor and sigurd into a huge sleep in assasins creed valhalla when fighting basim?
Please do a play through for the assassin’s creed games please day 1 of asking
The main problem to game adaptations is the heavy lore... how to condense so much lore in 2h or so... even the games develop the lore as they release the sequels... but when it gets to a point where they see a movie would be profitable... there are like 3 or 4 games with 50 hours of content, each... and they try to cram it all in the first movie... often killing the chances of a sequel
My biggest issue with it was it felt like it was trying way too hard to try and have it make sense to people who know nothing about the games while not explaining parts of it that are key aspects of assassin's creed that only fans who played the game would immediately underatand. It tried to have it both ways and it kinda failed. They should have either made the story to tailor it only for viewers who know 0 about assassin's creed... Or make it focused solely on those who know about Assassin's Creed to make the ideal story they'd love to see in a movie...
I’m a casual person for movies, shows, and even games never seen movie but I’d be interested in to watching it played AC Odyssey and AC Remastered very great games now I just need the movie
I think one of the problems was the lack of dubbing. even though the in-game animus did this.
You are the goat for doing this
I know 1to1 shouldn't be the priority in an adaption but after the last of us series, they should've adapted desmond's story.
Or the story of edward kenway after black flag(?) I have yet to read the source tho.
Damn, I watched this movie in 2019 and i remember enjoying it. But I was on deployment, in the middle of the ocean, with limited entertainment..
With the netflix show or any other movie i would ask the ac community about which timeline they want like which year they should look up to and probably the story the same leak some text from the story and ask them what they think. Maybe even make the show or movie like the games.
It should feature Altiar as the protagonist, and adapt the First Crusade novel from 2011.
The parkour, fight choreography, and costumes were this movie’s biggest shining moments. All they needed was a solid direction, and writers that knew what Assassins Creed was, and meant to its audience.
Had they taken time to flesh out the story, and work it into the lore better, it would have been much more popular… but they decided to take dozens of liberties, and introduced an over the top new form of animus that’s never been touched upon again, because even the teams behind the games thought it was lame.
The movie just felt soulless and corporate, made strictly for marketing the name, and not for telling a new interesting story. It’s a shame, there was so much potential… maybe the upcoming Netflix Assassins Creed series will do better… if it’s even still alive after the actor/writer strikes. Even still, modern Netflix and Ubisoft don’t exactly have my complete faith in their ability to make something everyone can enjoy… so I’m not going to hold my breath for their (supposedly) upcoming AC series either.
You would like an Aguilar game set in Spain?
We got that with Rebellion!! lol
from 2008 the 2016 if you think about all the management changes that went through this movie did surprisingly well considering that the person that invented assassin's Creed was fired before this movie came out it's probably one of the main reasons I didn't do too well and some opinion by the my this was a good movie and the one person who's directing the series now is Michael fassbender's it's going to be in screenwriting because of the chnge in
Project going forward
Whats going on with Netflix?? I think they should just focus on Assassins vs Templars. No Isu for now.
My first thought when I saw this video pop up in my feed was, "There was an Assassin's Creed movie?"
The movie should’ve started with Cal waking up ditching everything before. This would’ve giving the later part of the movie more time and is something Fassbender acknowledged himself. ✌️
In 2016 I was replaying the games with Spanish audio in an attempt to learn the language.
The opening scenes had me twitching my fingers trying to control the character 😂
The movie failed because THE AMAZING PIRATE STEDE BONNET was not in it, if he were in it THE MOVIE WOULD BE GLORIOUS,
From what I understood, they were planning to make a trilogy hence the multiple unexplained components. Disney bought 21st Century Fox and sacked the plans because of the "negative" reception. I's watched it 3 times and I am pissed that the plan was canceled. I play the games too. I agree that it was ridiculous that it had a disgustingly low rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Most of the times Rotten Tomatoes rate good or acceptable movies badly but the audience gives the movies high ratings. The AC movie is just a standalone movie now. I hope someone gives it a chance for the plans to be revived.
I didn't mind this movie at all, I did hate the animus but that was about it. I wanted to see a sequel especially with the alternate ending
Why do movie budgets not include costs that apparently are 150-200% of their production costs?
18% on Rotten Tomatoes means only 18% of critics gave it a positive review, not that they gave it a 1,8 out of 10 rating. The average reting on Rotten Tomatoes is actually 4 out of 10!
I will be absolutely unsurprised if Netflix pulls their usual IP ruining shit.
I hope that they make another ac movie but focused on the assassin's more than the modern day
I think this would be better with a 2 movie setup. It’s just to much to cram in to one movie. The whole concept about the assassins and Templars, how the animus works, the past with Augilar and the present. It was pretty much setup to fail with only 1 movie. Another way to do it would be to just focus on the past in this movie and just hint about the present in the end of the movie and then if movie nr 2 was green-lit have that movie be more in the present.
please also play other stealth franchises especially far cry stealth outposts and fortresses
The main reason why the Animus looks so different is because the one in the first Assassin's Creed is the Animus 1.28, whereas the one in the movie is the Animus 4.0.
I really wanted to like it (Assassin's Creed looks so cool), but I just didn't understand what was going on. I didn't get the modern day stuff going on. Is that stuff even in the game? I started to watch it several times, but never seen it all the way through, I just couldn't get into it. I thought the games were set in the past, it was weird to make it set in modern times.
Ah, the movie I thought I'd watch sometime and then totally forget about.
If there’s one thing I loved about this movie it was aguilars robes they were sick af
Do anybody notice that the animation in the movie? Looks like yigdracil the world tree in ac valhalla
I'd give it a 6.5/10, and its official novelization an 8/10. The movie does well with the cast, the soundtrack, the cinematography, and the stunts. But the book excels in Narrative, with extended (and better) written scenes, not to mention additional context to the other Assassins and their ancestors. I agree with you though, it does not deserve the hate, and could've done well with a better sequel. However, since the hate and the untimely 20 Century Fox acquisition by Disney, the original plans for a trilogy seem less hopeful. I'd still take one though. Since much was already bought up in this one, the foundation is already set for a sequel to take its own time focusing elsewhere.
Honestly, I actually think the novelization to the movie is way better than the movie itself. It's better structured and narrated, the characters are more rounded up, we even found out more about the other modern assassins imprisoned with Cal and it makes you like them more. I think this movie could've worked better as a book and it actually did.
PS: Favourite things about the novelization; backstories of the secondary characters
Sofia: Her mother was killed by an assassin and her father was often cold toward her, she also has an interest for Cal at the end, not romantic but because they appear to share an assassin ancestor.
Moussa: A descendant of Baptiste and a former street thief who is the leader of the group in the prison Cal's in. The movie doesn't give him much of a personality but in the book he is given a clever trickster personality and a know-how on slight of hand and how to make poisons thanks to his ancestor.
Nathan: My favourite character in the book just for his backstory and it explains a lot of why he acts so rude towards Cal in the movie. He is a descendant of Duncan Walpole (the assassin turncoat Edward killed at the beginning of Black Flag) who used to be a drug dealer in London but now lives terrified that the bleeding effect will make him loose his mind to that of his ancestor, a man he does not want to become, a man without honor. So when he sees Cal voluntarily helping the templars, it explains why he lashes out the way he does.
Also more interesting are Emir and Lin (descendants of Yusuf Tazim and Shao Jun respectevily), but they don't really tap as much into their personalities as the movie.
The other things I liked were a little reference to Arno Dorian (protagonist of Unity) that confirms he is another ancestor of Callum, which i just thought is a cool little nod to the franchise in general and the final section of the book called "regressions"; memories of Baptiste, Duncan, Yusuf and Shao Jun that I think were all really well written (the first three a little more so).
I think it tried to put a lot for its watch time, Michael was really amazing cast for its lead I did enjoy the movie but for a newcomer to AC it might be very confusing.
It's not the best movie ever but I really enjoyed it. Might rewatch it tonight
I think the biggest flaw for this movie is that they're trying to explain everything. I don't blame em for trying to get as many people interested as possible, but no matter what, every single fan was going to be there. They're taking something that already has an audience, and trying to make another audience, which is just a silly move and a recipe to lose the support they were already going to have.