Assassin's Creed [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray]

Director: Justin Kurzel

Overview

In this feature-film adaptation of the hugely popular video-game series, death-row convict Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) relives his ancestor's memories as an assassin in 15th century Spain. From this out-of-body experience, Lynch gains the training he needs to battle a conspiracy in the present day. Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Michael Kenneth Williams, Brendan Gleeson, and Charlotte Rampling co-star. Directed by Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders).

Product Details

Release Date:	03/21/2017
UPC:	0024543348665
Original Release:	2016
Rating:	PG-13
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:55:00
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	1,537

Special Features

Take the Pledge: Behind the Scenes of Assassin's Creed - Five-Part Documentary; Conversations with Justin Kurzel; Deleted Scenes Conversation wih Justin Kurzel & Christopher Tellefsen; Gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michael Fassbender	Callum Lynch / Aguilar
Marion Cotillard	Dr Sophia Rikkin
Jeremy Irons	Alan Rikkin
Brendan Gleeson	Joseph
Charlotte Rampling	Actor
Michael K. Williams	Moussa,Actor
Denis M?nochet	Actor
Ariane Labed	Maria
Khalid Abdalla	Actor
Carlos Bardem	Actor
Javier Guti?rrez	Tomas de Torquemada
Essie Davis	Actor
Matias Padin Varela	Actor
Callum Turner	Actor
Hovik Keuchkerian	Actor
Crystal Clarke	Actor
Michelle H. Lin	Actor
Julio Jordan	Actor
Angus Brown	Actor
Kemaal Deen-Ellis	Actor
Aaron Monaghan	Actor
Thomas Camilleri	Actor
Marysia S. Peres	Actor
Jeff Mash	Actor
James Sobol Kelly	Actor
Gabriel Andreu	Actor
Yuric Allison	Actor
Joe Kennard	Actor
Gertrude Thoma	Actor
Juan Pablo Shuk	Actor
Coco K?nig	Actor
Matias Varela	Actor
Jed Kurzel	Composer
Julio Jord?n	General Ramirez
Rufus Wright	Alex
Dino Fazzani	Prison Guard
Malcolm Ellul	Executioner
Alexander Cooper	Passerby
Emeson Nwolie	Administration Officer
Lee Nicholas Harris	Paramedic
Christopher Whitlow	Assassin 1
Martyn Mayger	Templar
Iain Batchelor	Abstergo Guard 1

Technical Credits

Bill Collage

Adam Cooper

Michael Lesslie

Scott Frank

Jean-Julien Baronnet	Producer
G?rard Guillemot	Producer
Frank Marshall	Producer
Michael Fassbender	Producer
Conor McCaughan	Producer
Arnon Milchan	Producer,Executive Producer
Patrick Crowley	Producer
Christine Burgess-Qu?mard	Executive Producer,Producer
Bill Collage	Screenwriter
Adam Cooper	Screenwriter
Michael Lesslie	Screenwriter
Markus Stemler	Sound/Sound Designer
Basil Adams	Stunts
Sina Ali	Stunts
Faical Attougui	Stunts,Stunts
Andy Williams	Special Effects Supervisor
Winston Azzopardi	Production Manager
Markus Barmettler	Producer,Executive Producer
Jean de Rivieres	Executive Producer,Producer
Cabel Adkins	Sound Effects
Mark Appleby	Sound Effects
Alexander Buck	Sound Effects
John Casali	Sound Effects
Scott Frank	Screenwriter
Fannie Pailloux	Producer
Andrea Pasqualetti	Sound Effects
Richard Whelan	Producer
Daniel Emmerson	Producer
Anthony Brownmoore	Special Effects
Chris Hardman	Special Effects
Joe Nowacki	Special Effects
Adam Basil	Stunts
Ashley Beck	Stunts
Rachelle Beinart	Stunts
Nathan Brimmer	Stunts
Marvin Campbell	Stunts
Jason Curle	Stunts
Genadiy Ganchev	Stunts
Al Holland	Stunts
Radoslav Ignatov	Stunts
Erol Ismail	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

In 1492, when you-know-who sailed the ocean blue, the Order of the Knights Templar met in secret in Inquisition-era Spain to scheme over how to reclaim the Apple of Eden, a mystical grooved-metal sphere that's part Rubik's Cube-style puzzle and part Pandora's box. They seek the Apple to reverse its charm and purge the human race of its capacity for sin -- and, likewise, free will -- but another group meeting in secret has something to say about that. The Assassins, a guild of cloaked and tattooed nihilists championing free will (for good and ill) have sworn a blood oath to keep the Apple out of the Knights Templar's clutches, and they've got lots of knives tucked into their scabbards and gauntlets to show that they mean business. Five centuries later, in a dusty trailer park in Baja California, preteen Cal Lynch (Angus Brown) discovers that his mother (Essie Davis) has been bled to death at their kitchen table, a Spanish-style silver charm threaded on a chain between her cold fingers. Thirty years later -- and hold on, because this isn't the last of this movie's chronological jumps -- Cal (played as an adult by Michael Fassbender) is an inmate on death row. He knows plenty now about the human capacity for violence, but so does a scientist (Marion Cotillard) operating out of a sleek concrete facility at an undisclosed location. After faking his execution, she shanghaies him back to her lair and presents him with his new calling: He must travel back to 1492 via a gigantic claw rig and a device clamped into the nape of his neck, which will allow him, Matrix-style, to inhabit the body of an ancestor of his who was an Assassin. During this experience, he works with a similarly sworn compatriot (Ariane Labed) as they stab their way through crowds of Knights Templar henchmen in defense of the Apple. He must do this "to pioneer new ways to eradicate violence," as Cotillard's character says with a straight face. Fannish moviegoers may feel a great disturbance in the Force -- or just déjà vu -- at the ingredients of Assassin's Creed's first act, since this film opens exactly the same way that Rogue One does: sweep a high-flying camera across a vista or two, follow a child's flight from peril after the death of a parent, flash-forward to the prison where they've ended up as an adult, then spring them free and give them a heroic mission. But this movie is quick where other geek epics are dead. Director Justin Kurzel, whose previous collaboration with leading man Fassbender was a critically acclaimed adaptation of Macbeth (2015), teams up again with cinematographer Adam Arkapaw to quote, with respect, the span of Ridley Scott's oeuvre, from the austere chiaroscuro of his Apple Macintosh commercial to the dust and leather and bronze of Gladiator. Kurzel and Co. (including Fassbender, who is credited here as a producer) labored to make a "video-game movie" that's beautiful, and it's only a bit of a stretch to describe its vistas and pacing and murmuring score (by the director's brother, Jed Kurzel) as Kubrickian. Speaking of Kubrick, it's apples and oranges to compare A Clockwork Orange's masterful debate about free will vs. violence with the Apple of Eden, yet this film's philosophical underpinnings -- coming down squarely on the side of free will, to be sure, with its Futurist veneration of violence as one of Homo sapiens' intangible cultural treasures -- give its many (but never too many) action scenes a similar cerebral richness. And if these morally searching questions form the soul of Assassin's Creed, then Michael Fassbender is its infinitely charismatic heart. He is up to all of his usual tricks here, combining the magnetism and emotional acuity of his dramatic appearances (think Shame or 12 Years a Slave) with the physical dynamism of a to-the-manner-born action hero. (He is "foxy" by every entry in the dictionary, sly and quick and lickable.) Assassin's Creed isn't Macbeth, to be sure. But it's every inch the best version of what it could be. This is how a geek movie should be done.