barjo-915-203229
Joined Dec 2010
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I was really hoping this would be good... but it wasn't.
First up, I hadn't played the games, didn't know the backstory. This I think was a problem, the movie *does* seem to expect you know the backstory - it gives a ridiculously short introduction to the world, where very quickly you have to understand the Templar knights are fighting some assassins for some secret thing called "an apple".
Production standards were top notch, acting is pretty good (with a good effort by Irons, Coutillard and Fassbender) and some amazing imagery, but the big fail here was the storyline and perhaps too fast pacing. Clichéd bad guy from Irons and the overall simplification of what is complex material makes this just a silly action movie for the gamers when it could have been so much more.
First up, I hadn't played the games, didn't know the backstory. This I think was a problem, the movie *does* seem to expect you know the backstory - it gives a ridiculously short introduction to the world, where very quickly you have to understand the Templar knights are fighting some assassins for some secret thing called "an apple".
Production standards were top notch, acting is pretty good (with a good effort by Irons, Coutillard and Fassbender) and some amazing imagery, but the big fail here was the storyline and perhaps too fast pacing. Clichéd bad guy from Irons and the overall simplification of what is complex material makes this just a silly action movie for the gamers when it could have been so much more.
