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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Hunter S

I am just seeing this for the first time after it is now on Max. While it would seem confusing at first, being a huge fan of the games (which can also be confusing at times) this movie adaptation did a great job of adapting the game to a live action movie. I think critics are a little too harsh. You’ll notice the audience rating is higher than the critics and normally that’s all that matters. 5* for me.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/10/25

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James W

Long time fan of the games and I actually enjoyed this and wished they would’ve continued on

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/09/25

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Renaldo D

Unconvincing, boring, horrible.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/07/25

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Carter E

One of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen. There’s so many characters and stories, and when the riot prisoners die the camera zooms in on them like they’re extremely important characters to the story. Also how is Cal a part of the brotherhood now? When was he adopted into the brotherhood? Not only that but the beginning of the movie is really, really boring and slow (not unlike some of the games) and barely anything makes sense. I’d rather wear shoes with glass shards in them, drink petrol and play the beginning of AC 2 than watch this movie again.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/07/25

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Troy R

Decent action, decent story for most of the movie. Ending was a little anticlimactic and felt like it was trying to setup a sequel. Acting was ok to pretty bad, side characters really didn't make an impact as the movie seemed to want them to. Never played the games past a 10-15 minute demo but seemed relatively on brand to the games. I am sure there are a bunch of easter eggs I didn't understand due to not knowing the game. Hopefully those felt good for the gamers who love the franchise, though I get the idea they were pretty flat "Like o cool that sword from this game." and then boom that was all it was.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/04/25

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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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