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Assassin's Creed

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Assassin's Creed

PG-13

Released Dec 21, 2016

1h 56m

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Adventure

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Cal Lynch travels back in time to 15th-century Spain through a revolutionary technology that unlocks the genetic memories contained in his DNA. There, he lives out the experiences of Aguilar de Nerha, a distant relative who's also a member of the Assassins, a secret society that fights to protect free will from the power-hungry Templar Order. Transformed by the past, Cal begins to gain the knowledge and physical skills necessary to battle the oppressive organization in the present.

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Critics Consensus

Assassin's Creed is arguably better made (and certainly better cast) than most video game adaptations; unfortunately, the CGI-fueled end result still is still a joylessly overplotted slog.

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Elena Lazic

Little White Lies

Although this story of multiple timelines provides some interesting moments, the cryptic, excessive, often extremely muffled dialogue makes the film excruciatingly hard to follow.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 3, 2018

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Valerie Complex

Black Girl Nerds

I have never seen a group of A-list actors look and act so disinterested.

Rated: 1.5/5

Jan 19, 2017

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

One is left wracking brains as to why these talented people wasted so much time. It's not even the best videogame adaptation released in the past 12 months. Come back, Angry Birds. All is forgiven.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 10, 2017

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Zach Pope

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The worst way to adapt a video game

Aug 7, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

I had fun with “Assassin’s Creed” particularly with its wildly unique (and admittedly wacky) story. It also doesn’t hurt to have this level of acting talent in front of the camera.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 19, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Kurzel's brooding, internalized work often appears through a literal or figurative haze, which doesn't help matters.

Rated: 1.5/4

Apr 5, 2022

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Jade Coyote

good acting good action weak writing and story telling

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/07/22

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R 3

Very good action scenes, almost like in the game. In short, it fulfills the objective of a movie: having a good time watching an action movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/26/25

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Paul S

Despite its visual flare, the story made no sense to me, and it felt really disconnected from the games. This movie can definitely be avoided, whether you're an Assassin's Creed fan or not.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/23/25

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Audience Member

The only thing wrong with this film is that they had to try and tell an entire Assassins Creed story in under 2 hours. I wish they would have used a limited series for it. That being said, I liked the movie a lot.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/14/25

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Ian K

For a film made from a computer game, it started pretty strongly - and went well up to about 2/3 of the way through. The "Apple of Eden contains the key to free will" plotline was always total bollocks, but the action sequences and some sub-plots (father/son, father/daughter, potential being realised) were not bad. Then the ending was so gob-smackingly awful: the assassins... assassinated everyone in about 2 minutes and the film just ended. Game over.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

04/11/25

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D P

No. Rewrite this, please. I am not even familiar with the video game, but my son chose the film because he knew about the video game. They probably would have written a more interesting story if they had just stayed in the past.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/04/25

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Synopsis

Cal Lynch travels back in time to 15th-century Spain through a revolutionary technology that unlocks the genetic memories contained in his DNA. There, he lives out the experiences of Aguilar de Nerha, a distant relative who's also a member of the Assassins, a secret society that fights to protect free will from the power-hungry Templar Order. Transformed by the past, Cal begins to gain the knowledge and physical skills necessary to battle the oppressive organization in the present.

Director: Justin Kurzel
Producer: Jean-Julien Baronnet, Gerard Guillemot, Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Michael Fassbender, Conor McCaughan, Arnon Milchan
Screenwriter: Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Regency Enterprises, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, DMC Film
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Action|Brief Strong Language|Intense Sequences of Violence|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 21, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $54.6M
Runtime: 1h 56m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, Datasat, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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