Assassin's Creed
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: December 21, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
16
Negative:
18
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshDec 20, 2016
Assassin's Creed will be polarizing, but it's fascinating as an entry in Kurzel's oeuvre. It is singularly his film — both in style and the obsession with hubris, power and violence. Read full review
60
EmpireJames DyerDec 20, 2016
The frenetic action is Assassin’s Creed’s saving grace. Inventively choreographed and beautifully executed, its game-inspired brand of wushu-meets-parkour delivers some genuinely awe-inducing feats. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerDec 19, 2016
Assassin’s Creed makes you actively work for its pleasures, and it’s heartening to see a film of this scale that’s strange and ambitious and doesn’t spoon-feed viewers every little detail. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonDave CalhounDec 19, 2016
The relentless gloom can feel oppressive, but there’s plenty of ambition here, especially in the layered storytelling and woozy sense of time and place, with plenty of soaring aerial shots that nod quietly to the all-seeing eye of a computer game. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramDec 19, 2016
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. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliDec 22, 2016
Obtuse, narratively incoherent, and ultimately frustrating, it stands as another example of how hard it is to make a good mainstream movie out of a popular computer game. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyDec 21, 2016
The effect is less video-game-turned-movie than zombie movie minus zombies: stilted, static, s-l-o-o-o-w. The ending couldn’t set up a sequel more clearly if “To be continued” appeared on a title card. Don’t count on it. Game on? Game over. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenDec 21, 2016
The picture has an undeniable rough stylishness...but in terms of coherence of storytelling it leaves the audience choking on all that swirling dust. Read full review
50
ConsequenceRandall ColburnDec 21, 2016
What saves this head-scratching, relentlessly portentous movie is what also saves the games: the action is on point. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanDec 20, 2016
It’s incrementally more fun than it is silly. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonDec 19, 2016
Assassin’s Creed is nearly wall-to-wall violence, but Kurzel reveals an eye for widescreen composition that, paired with Christopher Tellefsen’s efficient, hyperactive editing, gives the film the tenor of a sophisticated graphic novel. Read full review
50
The Film StageJordan RaupDec 19, 2016
Assassin’s Creed bears a jumbled narrative and self-serious approach that ends up feeling far too assaultive on the senses without any genuine pay-off. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerDec 19, 2016
The movie is at least interestingly confusing until about the halfway mark, when monotony sets in for good. Read full review
42
The PlaylistKenji FujishimaDec 19, 2016
It’s all window-dressing for an ending that reveals this alternately goofy and self-serious big-budget Hollywood product to be little more than a two-hour prelude to a potential future franchise. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinDec 19, 2016
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 – but it never allows him a sober moment, as that film did in a hushed Polish forest, where his talent, as opposed to his biceps, gets a stern workout. Read full review
40
VarietyOwen GleibermanDec 19, 2016
In Assassin’s Creed, Michael Fassbender is like the ultimate special effect. Just by showing up, he confers respectability on two hours of semi-coherent overly art-directed video-game sludge. Read full review
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