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Another review

posted 8 years ago by fiotpowerup
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http://www.themovies.co.za/2016/12/19/review-assassins-close-but-no-scimitar/

Its 115-minute running could sorely have needed an extra 30 or so, to fill in the gaping gaps in its worldbuilding and allow its characters and narrative room to breathe and develop organically.

As I said.

[–] ninja_coola 8 years ago

But still the review is overall positive with 3 stars

[–] DrNarud 8 years ago

the review was still overall positive though. However, I'd like to mention that it's a South African film critic who also gave Warcraft a positive review. Why wasn't this posted posted in my other thread? Okay, I'll edit my first post to include it.

[–] PepperjackJig 8 years ago

A movie like this doesn't really need world building when it has like 8 games behind it, that are all canon to the universe of the movie

[–] ninja_coola 8 years ago

Kinda agree with you.

[–] SloppyJ30 8 years ago

A movie like this doesn't really need world building when it has like 8 games behind it, that are all canon to the universe of the movie

Totally true . . if the only audience you care about pleasing is gamers. To everyone else, the notion of "canon" is irrelevant at best and gut-bustingly hilarious at worst. I'd like to go see this with my son, who's played all the games, and not feel like I need his running commentary to explain what's going on or provide context.

The absolute worst thing filmmakers can do when creating video-game adaptations (or comic-book adaptations, for that matter) is worry too-much about what True Believers think.

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[–] gstards 8 years ago

Runtime so far is my only complaint about this film.

Nolan, I love you forever!

[–] messenscene 8 years ago

The movie is quite terrible. Another bad review: http://fanboynation.com/assassins-creed-2016/