Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed

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Action-adventure based on the video game series starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, directed by their Macbeth helmer Justin Kurzel. More

Through revolutionary genetic technologies that allow him to unlock the memories of his ancestors, Lynch (Fassbender) discovers he is a descendant of the secret Assassins society. These memories allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain, and equip him with the knowledge and skills necessary to take on the oppressive Knights Templar in the present day.

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18 ^%Rotten
tomatoes®
8 reviews
Directed by Justin Kurzel

2016Rating: M, Violence and offensive language115 minsUSA, UK, France

ActionAdventureScience FictionHistoricalBlockbuster

Director:: Justin Kurzel ('Macbeth (2015)', 'The Snowtown Murders', 'The Turning')
Writer:: Bill CollageAdam CooperMichael Lesslie
Cast:: Michael FassbenderMarion CotillardJeremy IronsBrendan GleesonMichael Kenneth WilliamsCallum TurnerAriane LabedMatias VarelaBrian Gleeson

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Assassin's Creed | Reviews

18%226 reviews

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

All reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

Flicks, Liam Maguren

A great videogame-to-film adaptation will happen in my lifetime, and I will be there when it happens. There will be confetti. There will be cheers. I will probably sob a little. But over this past year, there was no celebration for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft, Rovio’s Angry Birds or Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed.

Variety

It's got classier stars, but it's really the same old sludge.

Total Film

Valiant, but flawed. Some of the set-pieces are superb, but there isn’t enough meat on the bones to turn this into a classic.

Time Out

Takes itself too seriously – but manages to serve up a convincing enough alternate reality.

The Telegraph

Assassin’s Creed is leaps and bounds ahead of kitchen-sink-hurling flapdoodle like X-Men Apocalypse – it’s only the second-worst Fassbender star vehicle of 2016...

The New York Times

For an ostensible action movie, the cast spends an awful lot of time standing around and looking lost. I can only guess that they were following their director's lead.

The Guardian

It’s rare to see a film quite so lacking in animus. It exists only to gouge money out of gamers. They might well want to stick to the game.

FilmInk

...an exercise in joyless frowning and desperately unconvincing drama.

Empire Magazine

Often confusing and far too po-faced, Kurzel’s stabby period piece is redeemed by its sumptuous vistas and top-notch fight work.

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Assassin's Creed | Release Details

Assassin's Creed is available to stream in New Zealand now on Netflix and Google Play and Prime Video and Apple TV and Disney+ and TVNZ+.