"I'm an aggressive person."
Take away the distracting videogame-adaptation label, and what remains is a very serious, well-presented time-shift action thriller. Once past the Nikita-with-added-sci-fi first act, the story becomes a fairly straightforward jumping between the modern-day 'facility' and 15th-Century Spain via the Animus (a DNA-reading time-shift machine) in the hunt for the Apple of Eden (the film's rather unconvincing MacGuffin). Fassbender as always conveys his character very effectively and handles the action well, with Cotillard providing a strong scientific foil. The four expansive and extended main action set-pieces are dynamic and enjoyable, packed with energy and detail. Perhaps more stonily serious in tone than the material merits, Assassin's Creed nonetheless is a good solid action/sci-fi film.
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