Extremely poor film adaptation of a popular video game. The script is bad, the story is confusing and vague. They obviously thought they would achieve something with famous and good actors, but it's all in vain when they have nothing to work with. At times, the film is even boring which sounds unbelieveble considering the theme of the film.

As a young boy Callum Lynch witnessed his father murder his mother. Now, 30 years later, he is being executed for murder. However, the execution is faked and, instead of dying, he is transported to a special facility. It turns out that he is descended from a 15th century master-assassin, Aguilar, a member of the Assassin's Brotherhood. The plan is to train him in the ways of his forefather. This will enable him to fight the arch-enemy of his forefather, the Templars.

Great cast, very weak script. Plot is very basic and much of the movie consists of predictable, well-choreographed fight scenes. The writers try to throw in some intrigue and purpose by introducing the Apple of Eden but it is a fairly weak plot device.

Great cast - Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling - but these talents are all wasted due to the action-driven, no-substance script. Michael Fassbender can only blame himself for appearing in such a piece of crap - he co-produced the movie.

ASSASSIN'S CREED is the latest unremarkable film adaptation of a popular video game series. This sees an autopilot Michael Fassbender hooking up to some futuristic technology that enables him to live the life of an assassin in medieval Spain, battling against sinister Inquisition members and Knights Templar for possession of a magical artefact. Sadly, the film itself is a dire mish-mash of futuristic mumbo jumbo (with the most obvious villains ever) with bitty action sequences based on the game; these cheat by employing endless CGI in the fights, with characters turning into CGI animations to pull off otherwise impossible stunts at times. It seems to have been made by people without attention spans who have no idea how action should ebb and flow; they should check out some of the Hong Kong classics to see how to do this kind of stuff.