The Assassin’s Creed film features the popular Assassin’s universe with an original storyline. Michael Fassbender told ComingSoon “We really want to respect the games… One that I’ve learned is that audiences want to be surprised and see new elements of what they already knew.”  

The film introduces Callum “Cal” Lynch (Michael Fassbender), a career criminal sentenced to death. He is unknowingly rescued by none other than Abstergo Industries; for those who haven’t played the video game they’re a modern-day Templar order, people whom the Assassins fought ages ago. In the Animus, he becomes his ancestor, Aguilar de Nerha, an Assassin who aims to keep the “Apple of Eden,” in safe hands.

Fassbender is known to play Magneto in the X-Men universe, a role that seems difficult to step out of. In several scenes in Assassin’s Creed, Fassbender acted like another version of Magneto. “Holy hell, Magneto,” my mind shouted during certain scenes.  

Scientist Sophia Rikkin (Marion Cotillard) fills Cal in on where he is and why they need him. A machine called the Animus. Gamers are familiar with the device, it enables the user to relive the memories of their ancestors. They want to use Cal/Aguilar to grab the “Apple Of Eden,” an apple that enables consumers to be manipulated once eaten.

The best pieces of the film were in the Animus; breathtaking cliff diving, parkour filled scenes made me feel as though I were in a video-game, clutching a playstation controller like I didn’t have a save option. It was a thrill while Fassbender dived from rooftops and ran on clothes lines, jumped back and forth on walls and tossed knives through skulls.

The scenes outside of the Animus, however, were bland. Reminiscent of an under seasoned chicken, the acting was dull. You expect to hear “LINE!” as Fassbender and Cotillard blankly stare at one another in several shots.

Another red light is the lack of diversity. Casting features a black male and an asian woman. Everyone else is a white male, besides Cotillard who is a white female. Assassin’s Creed continues Hollywood’s rhythm of whiteness. Because this is the era of the Spanish inquisition, though, it’s not a surprise to see Eurocentric actors/actresses.

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Look who’s tearing several pages from Disney’s playbook on building a franchise…….Assassin’s Creed hasn’t been released in theaters yet,but there is a sequel already in the development pipeline. Hollywood alpha male Michael Fassbender ( Fassy to his ardent fans) stars in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed film and has already signed on for the sequel with the script sight unseen……if that doesn’t say faith in a budding franchise I don’t know what would.

Apparently Hollywood is ready to lays bets on AC being a outstanding moneymaker.

Fassbender plays a character not found in the Ubisoft game of the same name, but a man named Callum Lynch. The Callum Lynch character is made aware of  his powerful and mysterious bloodline after he is sentence to death for a serious crime, executed and then liberated by a shadowy organization. Lynch is taken by this secret society after his pronounced deceased and he is shown a new path and a dark past as he is descended of an 15th century assassin and is pressed to take up his ancestral place within the society.

It all comes down to how big the box office take will be for New Regency studio’s gamble but there is a bit of hiccup with who will direct any aforementioned sequels. Assassin’s Creed director Justin Kurzel who has worked Fassbender and others in the cast before has not signed on for any more films and there is currently not a peep or a rumor on who’s on the directorial shortlist.

Assassin’s Creed opens in theaters December 21st 2016.

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