It turns out that Callum is descended from Aguilar de Nerha, one of the Brotherhood’s members.

In order to achieve this goal the foundation needs to learn the location of the Apple of Eden, an ancient, mystical MacGuffin containing the genetic code for free will (or some such silliness) that was hidden during the Spanish Inquisition by the Assassin Brotherhood. Sophia explains that her father and Abstergo’s CEO Alan Rikkin (Irons) hopes to bring about sustained global peace by eradicating violent and anti-social behaviour in human beings. Williams and Brendan Gleeson all turn up in supporting roles to gravely deliver grandiose sounding speeches that are equal parts clumsy exposition, groan worthy clichés and utter nonsense. Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling, Michael K. The French Oscar winner gets even less opportunity than Fassbender to demonstrate what makes her one of the best young actresses of her generation, but at least she has plenty of overqualified company. Sophia Rikkin, the foundation’s leading scientist. Thankfully (for Callum at least, perhaps less so for the audience) he’s soon opening them again in the fortress-like, Madrid based headquarters of the Abstergo Foundation. There’s real, primal terror in Callum’s eyes before he closes them for what he believes will be the last time. The narrative then flashes forward thirty years to reveal that the sweet, traumatized kid from the previous scene grew up to be a murderer himself (of a pimp though so it’s okay, or so the film repeatedly suggests) and is on death row awaiting execution.įassbender’s phenomenal talent largely goes to waste in Assassin’s Creed but we do get a small glimpse of what makes him arguably the best young actor of his generation in the film’s genuinely affecting lethal injection sequence. We are first introduced to Callum in 1986 when he returns home from an afternoon of bike riding to find the bleeding, elegantly posed corpse of his brutally murdered mother (Essie Davies). Fassbender (who also produces) plays Callum Lynch, an original character created for the film. Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard reunite with their Macbeth director Justin Kurzel for this adaptation of the popular Ubisoft video-game series Assassin’s Creed.

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