Director Justin Kurzel’s an
interesting story in which an executed killer (Michael Fassbender) is
resusitated by a scientist (Marion Cottilard) and taken to a laboratory where,
through a serum and a machine, he is enabled, through DNA memory, to see and
take on the life of a relative who lived 500 years ago.
This relative was part of
a lineage of Assassin’s who were keeping Eve’s Apple of knowledge away from an
organization of Templar Knights, who wished to find it and use it to destroy
free will.
It sounds weird, but it
was better than I expected with Cottilard, Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling and
Ariane Labed to add to the fun.
However, whereas many
faulty films are saved with a good ending, this one has a ridiculous ending
that ruins what has been built up, assuming your suspension of disbelief has
been operative until then.
The other fault is the
fact the backstory is put in the early 1500s and the principal Knights Templar were
actually killed off in the early 1300s and the Inquisitor Torquemada, who is
the story’s nemesis (Javier Guttiérez), lived and died in the 1400s. Those facts I can not suspend.
I give Assassin’s
Creed a 3.7 out of 5.
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