'Assassin's Creed' Actually Is The Best Video Game Movie So Far, But It's Still Lacking

I ran the 100 meter dash, and broke across the finish line in record time. As I danced around in victory, my enthusiasm was not diminished by the fact that I was 8-years-old, and my only opponents had been my asthmatic neighbor and a few action figures that hadn't moved from the starting line. By this metric, Assassin's Creed has also won a gold medal. It's the best video game movie I've seen to date, but as everyone knows, that's quite a low bar. Stacked up against the larger world of weird sci-fi outings and action blockbusters, it just doesn't hold up, and yes, once again we still are stuck at merely "decent," rather than becoming that eternally out-of-reach "great" video game movie adaptation.