Assassin's Creed: reviews

What the critics say average 4.7 from 8 outlets

• 6.8 The VergeAdi Robertson 'Assassin?s Creed' creators have the courage to always take themselves seriously, even when they?re working with material that sounds fundamentally silly. There?s no great leap of faith in 'Assassin?s Creed', but a surprising amount of the time, it at least finds steady footing. Read
• 6.7 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich Declaring 'Assassin?s Creed' to be the best video game movie ever made is the kind of backhanded compliment that sounds like hyperbole, but the description fits the bill on both counts. Regardless of what you call this peculiar, arrestingly uninviting nonsense, the fact of the matter is that it?s the only blockbuster of 2016 that left me desperate for a sequel. Read
• 6.0 EmpireJames Dyer 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
• 5.0 The Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan It?s incrementally more fun than it is silly. Read
• 4.0 The TelegraphRobbie Collin '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
• 3.0 New York TimesGlenn Kenny 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. Read
• 3.0 The WrapMichael Nordine The plot is that most dreadful of mixes: both laughably silly and needlessly complicated. Read
• 3.0 TimeStephanie Zacharek 'Assassin?s Creed' the movie is fairly innocuous. It?s also cheerless and dumb. Read