Film: Cinema kills the video game star
It takes a very long time for Kurzel to trudge through the muddy gobbledegook that makes up his story
Cinema
Assassin’s Creed: Directed by Justin Kurzel, Nationwide, 12A,Rating:*
Endless Poetry: Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Selected, 18,Rating:****
‘Adapted from a video game.’ Words to send a chill down the spines of the most hardened cinemagoers, even those devoted to their consoles and joysticks and inured against hope by decades of disappointment. From 1993’s Super Mario Brothers to last year’s Warcraft, the history of transforming perfectly decent video games into dreadful films is littered ...
