 Come on, guys, you were so close! Guys, this is my review for Assassin's Creed, the latest video game-based movie to totally cock it up. This movie, I can probably say it's closest to Warcraft, is that it's a film that really closely follows the lore. Story's kind of weak, so are the actors in certain parts, but the lore is good. Assassin's Creed is the movie based off of the popular running Ubisoft series, and I've been a big fan of the Ubisoft series for a long time, up until Unity. Unity was a piece of garbage that I'll never want to play again, and I didn't even finish it because I thought that was a piece of shit, and I never wanted to put my money back and I failed, so I pissed off for getting on game. Anyways, but every game up until Unity, I have played and enjoyed immensely, even three, which I... Anyways, so Assassin's Creed actually takes place in a time that they haven't touched yet, really, which was the Spanish Inquisition. And we get introduced to Michael Fassbender's character in present day, and he's actually pretty good of a character. We actually get a lot of straights from him, some really amazing acting at the beginning of it, but then it starts to kind of float away, as does really the reason for this movie. We see the director Justin Kruzer, I totally got that wrong, but anyways, he has worked with both Michael Fassbender and Maryam Kulterra before on McBeth, and if you've watched McBeth, you'll notice he likes to use smoke a lot. And he does it with this movie, but it just comes off so well. Probably he gave half of his crew emphysema, but it's totally worth it because he just uses smoke and colored visuals in a way that just, it's never... The film is never not good to look at, however, there are parts of the film that really choose to go into these different directions that you really wouldn't enjoy. Now basically, when you've played the Assassin's Creed series, do you really, really enjoy being in present day? No? Well this movie does. Mind you, it does make sense in a way. If anything, the real life story actually makes more sense than any of the previous games real life counterparts all the Desmond Miles crap does ever. It honestly works better than any of those games did before, however, the consistency of going back in time does not really add up. In the sense of how close it is to the game, it makes sense. There's a lot of stuff that this film is following the video game pretty well, however, the first two times he goes back in time, they really aren't there for anything other than an action scene. They have really no consequences to the story. They're cool to watch, but in reality, they really mean nothing. So he's supposed to be taking basically what they want Michael Fassbender to do is what they wanted Desmond Miles to do in the first game, which is find the apple of Eden. Okay, so as you remember in that game, they put you in the last level, but you weren't synchronized properly. So they put you all the way back in the beginning, you learned everything, and that's called the progression of a video game. They do almost the same thing with the movie, except they don't explain why they put him in random parts. They don't explain anything really. The first scene is like, why did you choose that one? Why it's so specific about that first part that we need to be there for? You don't really get it. The only time that the past actually matters really is the third scene. And like I said, while the past is probably the more entertaining part of the movie, it doesn't matter as much as the present day, which I didn't mind that aspect. But the fact that we have a bunch of characters that are in the absurdity facility along with him and we really never know their names besides black dude, Chinese girl and shrimp. We don't really get to care for them. We don't almost almost even care for Michael Fassbender. We have this interesting relationship between him and Marie-Anne Coulterre because her motivations are not as clear cut as all the Templars are. She's kind of on the fence with it. But the thing is this aspect, which has could have been probably one of the more saving graces of the film is totally tossed into the dumpster and the final part of the film. And that's the thing. This film doesn't start off well. It has a really kind of sloppy opening, but then it starts to pick itself up and fix itself and then all the pieces just fall on the floor and then they don't even bother to fix it up in the final half. Everything after the final piece to the past is pointless. And speaking of, all the parts where he goes into the past and they're doing fight scenes, for some reason they really thought it was evident that they had to go and cut back to Michael Fassbender during the motions on the weird ass animus thing. You know how disjarring that is and how pointless that is? I don't care what he's doing in the future. I want to see the fight scene. You're totally ruining the flow of the fight scene. So in the end, Assassin's Creed is a visually good film. There are some good parts to it. And if you're an Assassin's Creed fan, you will enjoy it, except you're going to start to notice very early on the crack show and then they get bigger and bigger and then they fall to pieces. And what could have been a really good, a finally a good video game based movie and he just falls to pieces. I'm still going to say the best video game based movie is Lara Croft Tomb Raider. I'll say that. It's still the most solid one out of all of them. Anyways, Assassin's Creed gets a three out of seven for me, mainly because I have to appreciate the visuals, the choreography when it wasn't ruined with these stupid cuts to the past and then the attention to the lore. It's kind of like Warcraft. Warcraft for the same thing for me. Anyway, guys, that's all for me. I hope you enjoyed this review. Oh, by the way, to whoever was in that theater with me, why the fudge did you bring your two-year-old? What? Is Assassin's Creed apparently a good daycare service? That was really weird. It's probably the weirdest part of the whole movie. Anyway, guys, that's all for me. See you guys next time.