Assassin's Creed

"A great videogame-to-film adaptation will happen in my lifetime, and I will be there when it happens. There will be confetti. There will be cheers. I will probably sob a little. But over this past year, there was no celebration for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft, Rovio’s Angry Birds or Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed."

"It's got classier stars, but it's really the same old sludge."

"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."

"Takes itself too seriously – but manages to serve up a convincing enough alternate reality."

"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..."

"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."

"It’s rare to see a film quite so lacking in animus. It exists only to gouge money out of gamers. They might well want to stick to the game."

"...an exercise in joyless frowning and desperately unconvincing drama."

"Often confusing and far too po-faced, Kurzel’s stabby period piece is redeemed by its sumptuous vistas and top-notch fight work."