Oscar winners Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons. But the story…better luck next time. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins and Templars, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day. Was it possible to get a better set of actors? Plus Brendan Gleeson and Charlotte Rampling. Jumping back and forth in time from modern day to 1492, the story never grips the viewer and the characters are paper-thin.
. His camera swoops and soars and he uses the score by his younger brother, Jed, to punch up key moments. The fundamental problem is the screenplay. Cut to 2016 — Cal, now a man and played by Fassbender , awaits execution by lethal injection for a capital crime. Two-time Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender. Obtuse, narratively incoherent, and ultimately frustrating, it stands as another example of how hard it is to make a good mainstream movie out of a popular computer game. The music is effective, although a little in-your-face.
Instead of dying, however, he is brought to a super-secret research facility in Spain presided over by two Templars — Alan Rikkin Irons and his scientist daughter Sophia Cotillard. Surely, this was going to be the one. Their goal is to get Cal to use a machine called The Animus to experience the memories of an ancestor, an assassin named Aguilar, so he can pinpoint the location of the lost artifact The Apple of Eden. . . .
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