Nobody in the games likes the storylines from the present, luckily, they don't take much time from the games. Hmmm, so what should we do? Make 70 % of the movie take place in the present! Genius!
Honestly, it felt like watching a pseudo-artistic scifi cr*p with randomly inserted scenes from nonrelated awesome history action flick.
It was meant to compensate the lack of good present story in the games, if you are not too smart to understand it by yourself.
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I actually do like Desmond and the other present day characters and their story, but, yes, that is my main complaint about the movie, too. The games are all about the characters from the past - Altair, Ezio, Connor,... - with Desmond and the fight against Abstergo being nothing more than frame work.
In the movie, Aguilar has no character at all. No personal motivation to fight, no development, no goal other than to follow the creed.
Wtf were they thinking???
"We're a team, Garrus. There's no Shepard without Vakarian."
Indeed. I will never understand people's desire to take something that works, and then butcher it. I was just thinking the other day how awesome an Assassin's Creed movie would be that's 80% in the past (like the games) and is styled very similarly to The Borgias, who coincidentally featured in one (possibly 2) Assassin's Creed games. But no, we get childish rubbish. Oh well, maybe next time.
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Needles to say the movie would have been even more expensive if most of the scenes were from the past!
shareI enjoyed the 1400 Spanish setting and characters the most tbh, and perhaps this would've been better if they focused on the past more. I imagine the sequel will focus more on the present which is the less appealing part.
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