Actors: Michael Fassbender, Marion
Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Michael K. Williams.
Rating: 7 out of 10, I remember
watching for extended periods of time as my high school aged son played the
video game this movie is based on. They gathered an all-star cast but should
have spent more of their money on a coherent script. The action was great when
they stayed in 1490s Spain with the lead character leaping off buildings and
cutting a deadly swath through the forces of the Spanish inquisition (who no
one expects! – sorry). Unfortunately the movie spends a lot of time in the
present day with a convoluted and questionable plot. Marion Cotillard and
Jeremy Irons are wasted with thankless roles while a too mysterious, age old
war between the Assassins and the Knights Templar is barely explained. I guess
you had to have played the game to understand some of that but the medieval
Spain scenes were worth the price of admission.
MVP: Fassbender in the dual assassin role
spanning centuries
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