History Film / AssassinsCreed2016

* ArcherArchetype: Aguilar uses a bow and arrow during his and Maria's escape from the Templars. Callum naturally acquires Aguilar's bow skills through the Bleeding Effect and makes full use of them [[spoiler:during the breakout after acquiring Connor's bow]]. Both of them are suitably coolheaded and focused as per the trope.

Interestingly enough, the movie is ''not'' an AlternateContinuity adaption like most feature-length high-budget video game movies, but takes place in the same continuity as the game franchise. In fact, the movie's Animus parts take place in the same year as ''[[http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_II:_Discovery Assassin's Creed II: Discovery]]'', in 1491. Both take place in Granada and have the protagonist (Ezio Auditore and Aguilar) fight against the Spanish Inquisition. Ezio and Aguilar [[{{Crossover}} met each other]] in the 2018 MobilePhoneGame ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRebellion''.

Callum Lynch (Creator/MichaelFassbender) is a death row inmate who, after his execution, finds himself in the clutches of Abstergo Industries, the public front for the modern [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Templar Order]]. Legally dead and with no one to miss him, Callum is forced to relive the memories of his ancestor, the [[TheHashshashin Assassin]] Aguilar de Nerha ([[ActingForTwo Michael Fassbender]]), in late 1491-early 1492, during the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishReconquista fall]] of the final remnant of UsefulNotes/MoorishSpain, the Emirate of Granada, and ThePurge of the Assassin Brotherhood by UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition.

** The real life Alhambra never have anything resembling the massive, [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Moria]]-like moat crossed by a bridge shown in the movie, in which Aguilar dives to evade Torquemada and his guards.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Oddly done by Torquemada, who somehow reappears at the other side of the moat and walls stopping Aguilar after the Assassin free-ran his way through the city tunnels while escaping from the palace where Torquemada was seen last time.

There was a sequel project in development, but the film's poor performance at the box office meant that it never saw the light of day. The project was cancelled in the wake of Creator/{{Disney}}'s acquisition of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. A new live-action ''Assassin's Creed'' installment in the form of a Creator/{{Netflix}} series has been announced in 2020, though it is yet unknown if it will have any connection to the film.

Callum Lynch (Creator/MichaelFassbender) is a death row inmate who, after his execution, finds himself in the clutches of Abstergo Industries, the public front for the modern [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Templar Order]]. Legally dead and with no one to miss him, Callum is forced to relive the memories of his ancestor, the [[TheHashshashin Assassin]] Aguilar de Nerha ([[ActingForTwo Michael Fassbender]]), in late 1491-early 1492, during the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishReconquista fall]] of the [[UsefulNotes/MoorishSpain Emirate of Granada]] and ThePurge of the Assassin Brotherhood by UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition.

** A criticized aspect of the scenes set in the 15th century was the excess of dusk and smog, to the point the cities are constantly cloaked and the battles look like the soldiers their can barely see each other. If this meant to portray the standard weather of southern Spain, then it gets it quite wrong, and if it is meant to be the signs of the battles, then it overshoots it, because battles at the time didn't feature yet the massive, Napoleonic-level discharges of gunpowder necessary to darken the visuals to that point.

** Creator/JavierGutierrez plays a deliciously hammy villain, but in real life UsefulNotes/TomasDeTorquemada was not known to be that kind of furious, larger-than-life orator, but a rather subdued character. Especially notable is also that he has the baton all for himself in Castile, with UsefulNotes/TheCatholicMonarchs of all people sitting silently behind him like living props while he orders around, when Torquemada was never even close to have that kind of power in the Castilian court (nor the Catholic Monarchs were so submissive to him - or to anybody, for that matter). His role in the capture of Granada also seems to place him in the role of historical Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros.

** It is also surprising that Aguilar and Maria are allowed to wear their Assassin clothes to the stake in the film. In real life, victims of an Inquisitorial execution would be stripped of all clothes and only given to wear a poncho named ''sambenito'' and a hat named ''coroza''.

* HistoricalUglinessUpdate: Queen Isabella of Castile is given a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/assassinscreed/images/5/5f/ACM_Isabella.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170430201808 fearsome appearance]] with FacialMarkings and [[LeanAndMean looking rather emaciated]]. No historical records or portrayals ever depict her like this - if anything she'd look like what a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile normal queen]] would look like.

--> "We are feeding the beast."

** Weapon wise, Abstergo seems to have acquired some of the trademark weapons of previous Assassins, including [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Altair's sword]], [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Connor's bow]], [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag Edward's flintlock pistols]], [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate Jacob's cane sword]], and [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedChronicles Shao Jun's Hidden Footblade and Rope Dart]].

** Creator/JavierGutierrez plays a deliciously hammy villain, but in real life UsefulNotes/TomasDeTorquemada was not known to be that kind of furious, larger-than-life orator. Rather, he was apparently a quite subdued character.

** Royal fashion at the setting could certainly get very outrageous, but no Spanish queen would sport the strange kind of exotic Pict-ish warpaint the one from the film sports. The same goes for Ojeda's weird topknot, a hairstyle utterly out of place there.
** There are two different historical characters named Alonso de Ojeda of which Ojeda seems to be a CompositeCharacter (one was an inquisitor and the other a captain, cousins by blood), but none of them died at the time and place he dies in the film.

** The auto-da-fé was always a public act, but it was ''not'' meant to be a show. Staging one with dancers as in the film would have scandalized the inquisitors themselves, as they expected those acts to frighten the crowds into behaving as the kingdom's laws ordered, not to be seen as entertainment (and that those dancers even wear Satanic/Pagan-like goat masks is downright nonsensical). Also, in real life executions weren't conducted in the auto-da-fé itself, but in a separate event.

** Royal fashion at the setting could certainly get very outrageous, but no Spanish queen would sport the strange kind of exotic Pict-ish warpaint the one from the film sports.
** There are two different historical characters named Alonso de Ojeda in which Ojeda is based (he might be meant to be one of them, but which is hard to tell), but none of them died at the time and place he dies in the film.

Callum Lynch (Creator/MichaelFassbender) is a death row inmate who, after his execution, finds himself in the clutches of Abstergo Industries, the public front for the modern [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Templar Order]]. Legally dead and with no one to miss him, Callum is forced to relive the memories of his ancestor, the [[TheHashshashin Assassin]] Aguilar de Nerha ([[ActingForTwo Michael Fassbender]]), in late 1491, during the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishReconquista fall]] of the [[UsefulNotes/MoorishSpain Emirate of Granada]] and ThePurge of the Assassin Brotherhood by UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition.

** The burning of heretics at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition was always a public act, but it was ''not'' meant to be a show. Staging one with dancers as in the film would have scandalized the Inquisitors themselves, as they expected those acts to frighten the crowds into behaving as the Kingdom's laws ordered, not to be seen as entertainment. That those dancers even wear Satanist/Pagan-like goat masks is downright nonsensical.