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We all know that video game movies don't turn out so well, but this one actually looks pretty good that it hopefully ends up being a well-made movie.

Abstergo Employee: "Welcome to the Spanish Inquisition."

I bet he wasn't expecting that!

(I don't have high hopes for this but I'm not dismissing it as garbage either. Hopefully they put Fassbender's talents to good use.)

Visually speaking it certainly looks nice, and I gotta admit it's actually a good decision on the movie writer's part to make it an original plot rather than directly adapting the plot of the games (especially if they had attempted to do Desmond's plotline as that would have involved either 1: having to condense a ton of information, or 2: they'd be leaving the movie on a cliffhanger that might not get resolved if the film doesn't do well). This actually works in favor of still staying true to the games as well as the series has multiple protagonists over multiple periods of time, and the Spanish Inquisition is a period that hasn't been covered in the games.

Some observations:

-The Animus in this movie is very different from any Animus in the games, as it looks like this one was made for the specific purpose of allowing whomever is strapped into it full freedom of movement, probably in order to monitor one's physical prowess as they go through the genetic memories (in the games the only Animi we've seen are usually either bed or chair like things you lay or sit in and you get jacked into the memories Matrix style, and the games from Black Flag and onward it looks to be perhaps a VR device connected to a computer or gaming console made by Abstergo)

-Given Ubisoft decided to give the games a rest for one year so that way they can ensure the next game won't suffer from a rushed development like Unity (Syndicate's sales suffered because of Unity's poor launch reception, which is a shame because Syndicate was a big improvement), you could almost say this movie is actually making it so that AC is still annualized to some extent, if unintentionally

-The Assassin's in this movie all look to have some kind of face paint, which I don't recall seeing on Assassin's in most other games (outside of maybe some side characters I'm forgetting), so maybe that's unique to the Spanish Assassins?

-I wonder if this movie's plot will actually end up tying into the games, like a final plot twist reveals stuff about the 2017 AC game

I feel like people are dismissing this already because of the use of Kanye West music.

Yet AC3 had an Imagine Dragons song.

Most video game movies tend not to do well so i won't get my hopes up for this film.

Well, that was a weak point in the trailer. It jest didn't fit the atmosphere. Still, the movie looks interesting. I wonder if it's canon with the game series.

Here, have an alternate trailer edited by a fan with the original AC soundtrack!

I will say, the music here is A LOT better than in the trailer.

I've been following the AC saga since the beginning so, of course, I was like "holy shit!" after watching the trailer. I find interesting that Spain's the escenario of the past but I'm also intrigued for the present time with the Templars and Abstergo.

As for the music, well… they could've used something different but they went for it anyway, but who I am to judge?

Michael Fassbender is a great actor, when I heard he was doing an Assassin's Creed film I was intrigued. I'm a moderate fan of the series, but I'm more interested in Fassbender himself.

A lot of people don't like the whole animus thing and prefer the historical stuff, others are fine with it. I'm indifferent, so long as it doesn't play a giant role in the film. Spain is a great setting too, and the cinematography was pretty as well.

Oh speaking of Ubisoft movies, anyone else remember that a Splinter Cell movie was supposed to happen like a decade ago? Ubisoft actually put a teaser trailer on the game discs for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but then nothing became of the movie past that. I actually feel Michael Ironside could have played Sam in the movie at the time too because he wasn't THAT old just yet (as in he wasn't quite old enough to the point where Ubisoft replaced him in Blacklist because they needed a younger actor to do both VA and mocap, and I should note that Ironside himself said he was fine with the VA replacement and even trained his VA for a while, so it certainly went over more smoothly than when Keifer Sutherland replaced David Hayter as Big Boss).

if the AC movie is a success I wonder if Ubisoft will revive the Splinter Cell movie concept.

The plot of the movie already interests me, no Assassin's Creed game took place in the Iberian Pennisula, so that's a +1 for the authenticity.
I'm always skeptical of movies inspired by video games because most are bad movies and when there's a good one it's mediocre.
I'm not much into Assassin's Creed but I'm a lot into History so this movie already captivated me, I really hope this movie is good.