Ardant: I came to gloat, actually. Look at this data.
Gramática: A Sage!
Ardant: It gets better. Check his patrilineal line.
Gramática: Let’s see… patrilineal line… Nineteenth century American midwest. Eighteenth century American Revolution. Sixteenth century Ottoman Empire. Fifteenth century Italian Renaissance! Oh my god! You don’t mean…?
Ardant: Yeah… The best part? His mother just walked him into one of your new clinics in New York City.
Gramática: I’d really like to strip him for parts like we did with Subject 17.
Ardant: Oh no you don’t. You had your chance with the Shroud. This asset is mine, and I won’t be a party to the needless mutilation of a ten-year-old boy. It’s inhumane.
Gramática: So what do you plan to do with him?
Ardant: Given his unique lineage, I think we should put him in an Animus for the next fifty years. Think of the data we could extract!
Gramática: That’s terribly old-fashioned. In any case, we should send Sigma Team to recover him.
Ardant: No. I’m going to keep an eye on him for now. We’ll collect him when the time is right.
Desmond’s Son has been official revealed in the new Assassin’s Creed comic book series, Assassin’s Creed: Uprising.
For those unaware, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate revealed a hint that Desmond had an illegitimate son tracked down by the Templars.
“Let’s see… patrilineal line… Nineteenth century American midwest. Eighteenth century American Revolution. Sixteenth century Ottoman Empire. Fifteenth century ItalianRenaissance! Oh my god! You don’t mean…?”
―Álvaro Gramática discovering the boy’s identity, 2015
Officially, he has been confirmed to be a Sage as noted by their
distinctive combination of anisocoria and heterochromia, and in the hands of a new organization not Assassin or Templar; but the third fraction, The Instruments of the First Will, controlled and lead by the Isu, Juno.
Check out Titan Comic’s series to find out more. Safety and Peace be upon you my dudes!
OK, now that I had a moment to process what I saw, here are my thoughts on the movie…
(Obvious spoilers ahead under the cut)
I knew it wasn’t going to be great the moment I saw the opening scroll. I think that’s a very lazy way of explaining a plot and practically foreshadowing how messy and confusing it’s going to be.
While longtime fans of Assassin’s Creed know what’s going on (plus more than what was never addressed in the film), not everyone who is watching the movie have played games or possibly have played enough to understand. There were so many “empty pockets” in the first half of the movie
where they could have used the time to give some explanation about the Assassin-Templar war, Abstergo, the Apple of Eden, and so on.
When they actually did shed some light on certain issues, the tended to be brief and offhand. For example, after Cal’s first Animus session and starts suffering from the Bleeding Effect, Sophia Rikkin basically walks into his room and goes, "Yeah, that hallucination you’re seeing? It’s called the Bleeding Effect.“
First off–and I’m saying this as if I have never played the games before–you’re implying that the Bleeding Effect is just a fancy name for hallucination. Why bother calling it such? Second–and this time as a longtime fan of the franchise–hallucination is one of the symptoms of the Bleeding Effect, which is a disorder caused by the prolonged exposure to the Animus usage where the genetic memories of the subject’s ancestor starts to blend in the subject’s real-time memories. Seriously, Dr Rikkin. You’re a scientist. You can get as fancy and technical as you want with it and have the audience understand but not Cal. He still doesn’t know what the hell is going on during that point. He probably thinks he just tested out some extravagant VR system.
I could nitpick every moment they could’ve done better, but that’ll take all day and will be considered unfair because of my prior knowledge of the franchise. I will, however, say what I liked about it.
The last half of the movie does make up for the lackluster first half. The combat scenes did stay true to the games’ style as humanly possible. It’s disappointing that there weren’t as many as expected… especially when the trailer made it seem like there was going to be more.
It may be up to debate, but I think Ubisoft puts the best Easter eggs in their franchise. While not addressed directly, the fact that the descendants of Yusuf Tazim, Shao Jun, Baptiste, and Duncan Walpole make an appearance was probably one of the most exciting moments in the movie. (Though my gripe with that was the lack of dialogues with Lin/Shao Jun’s descendant, but that’s for another time). You see them use Ezio’s crossbow, Connor’s bow and arrow, and Arno’s rapier. I believe Aguilar used Evie/Jacob’s rope launcher. Which doesn’t make sense…
Speaking of Arno, possibly the biggest surprise and the redeeming quality was DAT ARNO FUCKIN’ DORIAN CAMEO.
My friend and I elated to see that familiar blue, red, and white outfit of his.
Overall, I think this movie is catered towards audience that are familiar with the Assassin’s Creed franchise. I wouldn’t call it a great adaptation, but it does a decent job of acknowledging underrated characters and overlooked information from the games for the fans while giving a very general idea of what the games are about.
Berg: Yes, I an in Essen, searching for an artifact called the Ankh of Isis. Can you tell me anything about it?
Violet: Give me a minute to fire up my machines here…
Okay. Not much. There’s an obscure file from the Data Dump Scanner that mentions it. It was allegedly in 14th century Germany, where an Assassin named Lukas Zurburg fought a Templar offshoot called The Brothers of the Cross. How original.
Berg: That’s the file that led me to this bland shit pile. Is there anything else? Anything outside of official Abstergo records?
Violet: Nobody’s ever seen the thing. There’s all kinds of stories about its history… from Roman Gallia, Egypt during the Middle Ages, and even a cell of modern day Assassins. Oh, and apparently it raises the dead.
Berg: Is there any evidence to support this?
Violet: None at all. You know what I think? I think this is bullshit the Assassins are spreading around so that people like us waste our valuable time sniffing after it. Smells like a trap.
Berg: Agreed. Keep an eye out for new information about the Ankh. While it may not lead to an artifact, we may be able to follow the date back to some Assassins.
Violet: You got it, boss. Where are you off to next?
Berg: Cuba. I am going to excavate the Observatory.
assassin’s creed movie makes me believe that video game movies will never be successful anymore regardless how many A+ actors you’ll put it in a movie.
I think it’s more of the producers and/or directors being the cause of unsuccessful adaptions than the actors. Sure, actors are the main focus and carries one of the biggest responsibilities when creating a film, but their performance can suffer if given poor direction and lousy plot no matter how successful they have been before.
All Sounds of Assassin's Creed 