10 Poorly Reviewed Movies That Deserve Another Chance At A Franchise

10. Assassin's Creed

Rotten Tomatoes: 18%

Assassin's Creed was a movie with a lot of well-documented issues. Critics were generally unimpressed, and its underperformance at the box office led to the planned sequel being quickly (and quietly) cancelled.

While Assassin's Creed is far from the worst video game adaptation out there, a handful of strange creative choices were made which really did nothing to help the movie's standing among fans of Ubisoft's free-running conspiracy-fuelled history lessons.

The video game series boasts a number of exciting and interesting stories each based around a particular historical era and location, each with a host of interesting characters both real and fictional.

Except the movie decided not to use any of that. Instead, we were presented with a new story, mostly focused on the war between the Templars and the Assassins, and minimal screen time is dedicated to the historical aspects of the story.

Very little importance was assigned to the protagonist's genetic memories, which should have been the narrative link between past and present. The result was a movie that felt like a cheap knock-off of the Assassin's Creed video game franchise instead of a new and interesting part of the games' story.

It really wouldn't be hard to make an Assassin's Creed movie that fans love, it's just that this 2016 nightmare really wasn't it.