Video
game adaptations are rarely classic pieces of cinema, but with the historical
settings and nice simple set-up of Templars vs. Assassins, I thought this had a
chance to be successful.
It
looks nice. It’s nicely acted. It’s good to see Jeremy Irons in a movie again. And
it’s nice to have important scenes in the Al-Hambra. But ultimately there’s no
reason to care about Cal, far too much time is spent in the uninteresting
present day story rather than the past, and the fact that the whole story is a
big macguffin plot and the final way to beat the forces of evil is just to catch
the baddie by surprise and beat everyone up feels like nothing was gained, learned
or developed during the course of the movie. All the heroes needed was a chance
to beat up the enemies.
Normally
in these kinds of movies, the disaster that the good guys want to avert is at
least partially unleashed. It’s generic, but it at least gives a sense of the
stakes. That’s sorely lacking here, making for a deeply unsatisfying ending.
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