Oh, well – it looks like the search for a great movie adaptation of a videogame will have to continue. At first, this lavish, ambitious project based on the Ubisoft action-adventure series of hit games looked like it could have broken the dismal “tradition” of such adaptations being – not to put too fine a point on it – sucky.
The good news is that Assassin's Creed doesn’t suck, on the level of Super Mario Bros or Street Fighter, but it is still somewhat disappointing and suffers from peculiar storytelling choices that result in a flat and totally unsatisfying ending.