I've been a fan of the Assassin's Creed games pretty much since the start and have played all of the main console ones as of today. So obviously I was interested in the movie, though not THAT much because I don't have a lot of faith in videogame adaptations (looking at you, _Max Payne_).

I thought it was a decent movie, but it had one giant flaw: it focused too much on the present day events instead of giving Aguilar enough time to shine in the past. That sort of made it a bit slow, and I particularly didn't enjoy how they showed the Animus room over and over again while interrupting the past scenes. I didn't want to be too focused on comparing to the games, but only the intro and three separate action sequences were in the past and that part of the story had no real importance other than finding the Apple... which sucks, because the past is what's most attractive about the series and arguably the reason of its success. Other than that, it also disappointed me to see [spoiler]how easy Callum simply changed from hating the Assassins to helping them... it was a good scene seeing all the Assassins via bleeding effect, but there was nothing in the story that led to this, it just sort of... happened.[/spoiler]

But leaving what I didn't like aside, it was actually a good adaptation. All the scenes with Aguilar were pretty awesome and it really felt like the game, the action was spot on and so was the running/climbing/jumping. I found it funny that one of the bad guys fell on a haystack cart but the Assassins didn't, I had the feeling it would be silly if they did. I was also really glad they didn't have the Eagle Vision and just had eagles be present throughout the film, because it could also be perceived as something silly, it's a big example of how not everything needs to be taken from game to film. Also, interesting to see that all scenes in the past were in Spanish, Michael Fassbender was great at it.

All in all I thought it was good, but it could have had a little more action, not necessarily in the past... but yeah, it could have more of that. If there is a sequel, they should explore more of the past given that they don't need to explain everything about the Animus and other things again.

[spoiler](I understand the story is meant to be in the same universe as the games... so I'm wondering if we'll hear something about the events of the movie in the next game. There was only one character that has been referenced previously in the games, he is of certain importance and... well, now he is dead. I guess we could read/hear something about it while spying on Abstergo.. I really hope Callum is mentioned, and perhaps we get Aguilar's outfit)[/spoiler]