Assassins Creed is by no means perfect, but I did enjoy it. The film has the classic setting from Assassins Creed games, a modern day protagonist enters the Animus to relive the memories of his ancestor. The film does a pretty good job explaining the series mythos to those unfamiliar with the games. Sadly, we don't spend as much time with the ancestor Aquilar as we do with the present day Cal, and Aquilar feels under developed as a character. The movie also felt a bit short. It really could have benefited from a longer run time, to give more character development to the ancestors, and explain some of the characters motivations better. The action in this movie is great, the story is solid, and the characters (that are properly developed) are interesting. Both Fassbender and Irons play their roles well. Overall a decent movie any Assassins Creed fan would enjoy. The critics like to bash it because it's a video game movie, and it's cool to hate video game movies, but it's not bad at all. 8/10
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Dark Floors
(2008)
Better than expected
22 June 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I was a little worried about this movie. The ratings here at IMDb were rather negative, and the movie seemed to be more like an expensive Lordi commercial. I had no big expectations, but ultimately was curious enough to watch. And now I'm rather glad I did. I... liked it.
The plot is quite simple: a father and his disabled daughter and a handful of other people take the elevator in a hospital. Suddenly the elevator stops between two floors for a while, and finally continues to the 6th floor. The people on the elevator find the hospital completely deserted. They notice that time seems to have stopped and they are being chased by monsters, and it seems the monsters are after the little girl. It is pretty much a basic horror movie scenario: Group of people trying to escape a scary place where a killer/monster chases them, so it's not very original, but the movie worked better than many other horror-films with the same basic plot line.
The monsters weren't too scary. Maybe they would have been scarier if they weren't familiar from the band. Althou they looked a lot more realistic with some computer enhancement, they didn't scare me at all, because I knew them beforehand. To me they weren't scary monsters, they were a rock-band. The movie might have worked better with new never before seen monsters, but it was still entertaining.
The actors weren't the best out there, and the movie suffered from a common horror movie problem: The survivors don't seem too shaken about the deaths of their friends. That doesn't bother me too much in this case, since they just met that day so there was no emotional bond between anybody but the father and his daughter, plus one of them was an idiot so I understand why nobody cared about his death.
The movie ends with nothing explained or concluded, which suggests there is a sequel coming and this was just the introduction. Usually I hate this kind of endings, but surprisingly this time I wasn't too bothered by that.
So, all in all, this was a rather good horror film and definitely a lot better than people say. Dark Floors was a lot better than Silent Hill or Resident Evil. (Some people are going to rip me apart for saying that, but hey, it's true!) I give this movie 7/10. If there is no sequel, it's not a huge loss, but if there is, I'm watching it.
The plot is quite simple: a father and his disabled daughter and a handful of other people take the elevator in a hospital. Suddenly the elevator stops between two floors for a while, and finally continues to the 6th floor. The people on the elevator find the hospital completely deserted. They notice that time seems to have stopped and they are being chased by monsters, and it seems the monsters are after the little girl. It is pretty much a basic horror movie scenario: Group of people trying to escape a scary place where a killer/monster chases them, so it's not very original, but the movie worked better than many other horror-films with the same basic plot line.
The monsters weren't too scary. Maybe they would have been scarier if they weren't familiar from the band. Althou they looked a lot more realistic with some computer enhancement, they didn't scare me at all, because I knew them beforehand. To me they weren't scary monsters, they were a rock-band. The movie might have worked better with new never before seen monsters, but it was still entertaining.
The actors weren't the best out there, and the movie suffered from a common horror movie problem: The survivors don't seem too shaken about the deaths of their friends. That doesn't bother me too much in this case, since they just met that day so there was no emotional bond between anybody but the father and his daughter, plus one of them was an idiot so I understand why nobody cared about his death.
The movie ends with nothing explained or concluded, which suggests there is a sequel coming and this was just the introduction. Usually I hate this kind of endings, but surprisingly this time I wasn't too bothered by that.
So, all in all, this was a rather good horror film and definitely a lot better than people say. Dark Floors was a lot better than Silent Hill or Resident Evil. (Some people are going to rip me apart for saying that, but hey, it's true!) I give this movie 7/10. If there is no sequel, it's not a huge loss, but if there is, I'm watching it.
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