History YMMV / AssassinsCreed2016

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The Animus sections and plotline about Granada and the Apple of Eden have much less screen time than the modern-day portions and are less explored, but they were unanimously considered the best part of the film, and both fans and detractors of the final product acknowledged they all would have wanted to see more of it. This is incidentally [[HistoryRepeats an echo of the complaints]] the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI very first game of the franchise]] received, which resulted in much of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' being set in the past. (Keep on mind, however, the reason the past segments were so well received was likely due to the fact that they make up most of the film's action setpieces, and therefore have most of the budget poured into them, so doing the entire film as a period piece while retaining this quality would not have been feasible with the movie's middling budget.)

** For Spaniards or people interested in Spanish culture, Queen Isabella I of Castile sporting Pict-like facepaint and an auto-da-fé being staged with dancers in Pagan-style goat masks ''by the very Catholic Inquisition'' can stretch the limits of ArtisticLicenseHistory the film runs on.

** [[spoiler:When Callum finally successfully does a Leap of Faith, the Animus appears to break. Because the Leap of Faith is so powerful, right? Much funnier when you realize that he leapt into water, which instantly desynchronizes the player in the first game.]]

* SignatureScene: The Leap of Faith scene, which was performed by Fassbender's stunt double; Damien Walters, without any CGI, and it looks ''stunning''.

** The real life Alonso de Ojeda became a conqueror of the Americas after the battle of Granada and was a personal enemy of Christopher Columbus. In the film, they are respectively a Templar and an Assassin, which presented a wonderful chance to connect with real history and explain that Ojeda actually sailed to the Americas on the chase of Columbus and the Fruit of Knowledge. However, here Ojeda is instead killed in Granada in a bad case of ArtisticLicenseHistory and this possibility is never used.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: Reviews on Website/RottenTomatoes and Metacritic have the movie sitting at scores of 19% likes (with an average score of 4/10) and 36/100 respectively, suggesting that it hasn't succeeded in its attempt to win an audience. The general problem most critics had was that the movie's action scenes could not save the lacking story or characters. On the other hand, its IMDB score is better at 5.6/10 - it's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff more popular in foreign markets]]. Also, audiences polled by [=CinemaScore=] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed. Early reviews on Website/RottenTomatoes and Metacritic have the movie sitting at scores of 18% likes (with an average score of 4.1/10) and 37/100 respectively, suggesting that it hasn't succeeded in its attempt to win an audience. The general problem most critics had was that the movie's action scenes could not save the lacking story or characters. On the other hand, its IMDB score is far better at 6.9/10 - it's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff more popular in foreign markets]]. Also, audiences polled by [=CinemaScore=] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The general opinion between viewers who are neither fans of the games nor professional critics. They usually critize the erratic pace, boring ending and what is perceived as videogame style over film substance, while in the same time tend to praise the breakneck action scenes, the significantly good cinematography and the fact that the entire cast TookTheBadFilmSeriously.

* CriticalDissonance: Critics and audience scores have been clashing here. While it's generally agreed that the character development and story is difficult to follow for those not familiar with the series there's a grand divide on whether or not the visuals and action save the film.

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven:
** The props department went through the trouble of creating working Hidden Blades that could extend and retract on camera because they felt that it was important to be as true to the mythos and setting as possible rather than simply relying on computer animation to get the desired effect.
** There's the fact that all the sequences set in Spain are spoken entirely in Spanish (albeit mostly modern Spanish, not the ancient variation spoken at the time).
** The Leap of Faith, rather than being done with CGI, was done for real by Michael Fassbender's stunt double Damien Walters, specifically to avoid SpecialEffectFailure. At 125 feet, it's one of the longest freefalls ever done by a stuntman.

* SignatureScene: The Leap of Faith scene, which was performed by Fassbender's stunt double; Damien Walters, without any CGI, and it still looks ''stunning''.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[InvertedTrope The awesomeness is in the foregoing of visual effects]], with Aguilar's Leaps of Faith performed by Fassbender's stunt double, Damien Walters, rather than using CGI.

%%* WhatAnIdiot: Abstergo Industries in this film. See TooDumbToLive in the main page for details.

** Moreover, Gutiérrez's character in ''Águila Roja'' was the BumblingSidekick of the mentioned Assassin {{Expy}}, and they both had to fight the Spanish Inquisition in several episodes. Here he plays Inquisitor Torquemada of all people, who also opposes the Assassins.

** For Spaniards or people interested in Spanish culture, Queen Isabella I of Castile sporting facepaint and an auto-da-fé being staged with dancers in Pagan-style goat masks can stretch the limits of ArtisticLicenseHistory the film runs on.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed. Early reviews on Website/RottenTomatoes and Metacritic have the movie sitting at scores of 18% likes (with an average score of 4.1/10) and 37/100 respectively, suggesting that it hasn't succeeded in its attempt to WinTheCrowd. The general problem most critics had was that the movie's action scenes could not save the lacking story or characters. On the other hand, its IMDB score is far better at 6.9/10 - it's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff more popular in foreign markets]]. Also, audiences polled by [=CinemaScore=] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

* WhatAnIdiot: Abstergo Industries in this film. See TooDumbToLive in the main page for details.
* WinTheCrowd:
** The crowd being the video game movie adaptation fanbase. The teaser also convinced many that this film goes above and beyond in honouring its source material, more so than past attempts like ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' and ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', to name a few.
** The teaser trailer earned the movie quick praise for its gorgeous cinematography and perceived faithfulness to the source material.
** Those disappointed by the ''{{Film/WarCraft}}'' trailers found that the ''Assassin's Creed'' teaser trailer did far better to impress not only the games' fanbase, but as well casual movie goers and gamers unfamiliar with the franchise.

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:All it takes to take down Rikkin is for Callum to sneak up behind him and slit his throat at the end. Though this may be justified considering Rikkin is a NonActionBigBad, it still comes across as disappointing for people [[TheUnfought hoping to at least come across him in person in the games]].]] Then again, the pre-''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Origins]]'' games are known for their anti-climactic boss fights as well, so in that respects it's true to the text.

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Javier Gutiérrez was heavily PlayingAgainstType when he was cast as Torquemada, as although he had just won a Goya Award in a gritty drama film, he was (and still is) mostly known in Spain for his early comedic roles. As a consequence, there were many people who doubted he could give a convincing impression of such an important villain, and some even feared he could drag down the entire film with his failure. However, after the film came out, even those who still disliked the cast choice conceded he had given a ''brilliant'' performance as the wicked Torquemada, or at least that he had done it much better than they expected.

** Back when the uber-popular Spanish TV series ''Series/AguilaRoja'' premiered in 2009, its producers were accused of copying the Assassin look for the title character and the plot of the games for the first season's arc, with some critics being harsh enough to call the series a poor "''Assassin's Creed'' in Spain". Comes 2016, and not only the official ''Assassin's Creed'' movie is set on Spain, but its ancestral hero is named Aguilar and a member of ''Águila Roja'''s main cast, Javier Gutiérrez, appears in it.

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:All it takes to take down Rikkin is for Callum to sneak up behind him and slit his throat at the end. Though this may be justified considering Rikkin is a NonActionBigBad, it still comes across as disappointing for people [[TheUnfought hoping to at least come across him in person in the games]]. Then again, the pre-''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Origins]]'' games are known for their anti-climactic boss fights as well, so in that respects it's true to the text.