'Assassin’s Creed' Gets Assassinated by Critics. The Video Game Adaptation Didn’t Live Up To The Expectation.

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"Assassin's Creed" has just hit theaters a few days earlier. With new releases also came the reviews, and the review for the highly anticipated movie isn't good. Directed by Justin Kurzel and had the Oscar nominated Michael Fassbender on board, didn't make the movie as the video game adaptation the fans had longed for. Even though the expectations were high and it is told to be the video game movie that stands up above the rest, the critics hits the movie hard with bad reviews.

The reviews from Rotten Tomatoes currently sits at 20%, with 6 out of 23 being the positive one by the report from forbes. There's not much video game movie adaptation that could achieve mostly positive reviews. The only adaptation that gets majorly positive review and commercially positive is 'Warcraft', while  other adaptation only get moderate reviews from critics and not that successful also in the box office.

While EW compiled some of the many reviews left by critics, it is somehow just explains how much of a failure the movie is. Most of them states that the movie lacks personality and good story. Just look at this review from Peter Bradshaw at The Guardian : "It's an action movie, with dollops of thriller and splodges of Dan Brown conspiracy; and hardly five minutes go by without someone in a monk's outfit doing a bit of sub-parkour jumping from the roof of one building to another. And yet it is at all times mysteriously, transcendentally boring."

While TIME's Stephanie Zacharek said "The plot of Assassin's Creed is very confusing. No, scratch that: It's a mess. You might not really care, but the movie - directed by Justin Kurzel, the Australian director whose last picture was a supergritty version of Macbeth, also starring Fassbender and Cotillard - is rife with squandered opportunities"

And the telegraph given a harsher review on the movie by stating even Michael Fassbender's presence as the titular character "leap off the screen". They states that his character, Callum Lynch is a "man-child with the weight of the world between his legs." With reviews like that it is very unlikely that "Assassin's Creed" will be recovering from the harsh blows from the critics. We still haven't get the recent updates on the movies commercial performance worldwide to see where the movie stands with other video game big screen adaptation.