World of Warcraft makes people see the crazyness of players after the game adaptation. This time, "Assassin's Creed", which also has a huge player, invested 125 million US dollars. The cast includes actor Magic Shark and actress Marion Marion, which can feel that his ambition is quite large. As a non-player with no background, the game stories learned through Baidu are quite large and complex, but the movie takes great care of us, the audience who know nothing, and spends 80% of the time to popularize the story background. However, passers-by still say they are confused after watching it, wondering if the game fans will blow it up.
The plot of the movie is divided into two lines, Spain in 1492 and the United States in the 21st century. The ancient plot explains the historical background, and the movie is basically the same as the game. However, as non-players, Chinese audiences who see Arabs being called kings on Spanish land can only mean that they are so messy! In fact, Spain was ruled by the Arabs in history, until later the Spanish army attacked Granada, and the Arab rule was overthrown, which was the victory of the famous Resurrection Movement. At this time, Christianity became the mainstream sect in Spain and began to purge the pagans. Of course, these movies are accustomed to know everything, and you have to do your homework.
The goal of the Christian Church in the movie is to control humans' freedom of thought and allow humans to survive according to their rules. Whoever can get the "apple" of Eden can control humans, so the church has been ordering the Knights Templars to look for apples. Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. The mysterious Assassin organization is a "successful squad" born to fight against the Knights Templar and protect the apples of the Garden of Eden. What exactly is this apple? Why does such a function exist? You must never worry about missing out when watching the movie, because the whole movie is really not explained!
In the 21st century plot, the searcher of Apple has changed from the Knights Templar to a large medical technology company, with the goal of helping churches and politicians get Apple and thus control humans. Correspondingly, the assassins also have their own descendants. Their special genes make their bloodline have the memories and skills of their ancestors. As long as the memory is activated, the skills can be obtained at the same time! It's actually a story about competing for ancestors! Carl, played by Farshark, has memories of Apple's collection, and ancient and modern plots appear intersected as medical companies use machines to acquire the memories of Carl's ancestors. But the modern plot at this time became increasingly thin, and the main purpose was that the male protagonist decided to retrieve the memories of his ancestors. However, the memory content appeared in the form of holographic images, and this sense of technology slightly made up for some voids.
In ancient times, the scenes were relatively rich and the space was large. In medieval architecture, Carl's ancestor Aquila and his companions showed a very dazzling parkour scene when they were hunted down, as well as various assassins' flying eaves and walls. Of course, there will be no lack of classic leap of faith. It is said that real people are really jumping! But what about landing on the haystack? The ancient fighting scenes are indeed more ornamental than the modern part, but those wearing 3D glasses should be careful, as they are likely to sway and vomit.
The movie ends with Carl regaining Apple, When you think a wonderful confrontation is about to appear, it only took 5 minutes to recapture Apple. As I said at the beginning, this film used a lot of space to describe the story background, and there was a lot of lack of the creation of several characters in modern dramas. Why did Carl grow up on the death penalty stage? The conflict between Sophia, played by Marion and her father, the boss of a medical company, was not explained clearly. Finally, as Carl's memory recovered, she fought back with the descendants of the trapped assassin. It felt a bit inexplicable. Because of the flaws in the plot, it was a bit wasteful of good actors, and she also felt a little regretful about the plot that the film could not unfold, which made me feel that everything was to leave enough suspense for the sequel.
Although the plot is not satisfactory, I personally think it has a good visual effect, especially the opening and ending are both scanned from the perspective of following the Hawk. One is California in 1986 and the other is London in 2016. It is indeed impressive and brings the game style to the screen.
Ubisoft Montreal Studio has a big appetite, but the first movie has not even explained the background and storyline. It's a pity that if you want to turn the popularity of the game series into the popularity of the movie series, you still need to work hard on the story, otherwise it will only become a useless rib that fans don't love passers-by.
