Assassin’s Creed Origins tells the prequel to the creation of the Assassin’s order. It opens in Ancient Egypt. In a small oppressed village, a rumour spreads, from street girls to palace servants. We witness the oppressed waiting for the right moment and then striking down their oppressors, regaining their liberty. All of this under the watchful gaze of Bayek, the first Assassin.
Origins arrived after the franchise had taken a year off in 2016 – the first time in nearly a decade that no Assassin’s Creed title was released. It was a deliberate reset, a response to the troubled launches of Unity and Syndicate, and the creative team came back with a mandate to rebuild from scratch. The year of silence had made people dream of the franchise again. Origins was its return to glory: a reboot set in Ancient Egypt, overhauled combat, a new protagonist, and critical praise that the series hadn’t seen in years.
The film concludes and you realise: throughout the film, the voiceover was not talking about himself. He was talking about his ideas. Because a man can die, but his ideas won’t.
Directed by Daniel Wolfe, I Am is uncompromising. No Hollywood clichés. A live-action tribute to the ideas that have inspired the oppressed for centuries to revolt against their oppressors.
