Assassin's Creed is a film adaptation of the extremely popular Ubisoft video game of the same name, which was inspired by the Slovenian novel Alamut! In the film world, there is an unwritten rule about computer game adaptations. Don't record them! It's that simple. It didn't work for Super Mario Bros., not for Dead or Alive, not for Far Cry, not for Street Fighter, not for Hitman: Agent 47, and last but not least, not for Tomb Rider. Assassin's Creed, like Warcraft, attempts to swim against this tide and reverse the negative trend of films based on critically and commercially successful video games, but which themselves are usually anything but.