Ubisoft Entertainment SA has released the first trailer for its upcoming Assassin’s Creed film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, and surprisingly the movie looks like it might not be the total trainwreck most game-to-film adaptations tend to be.

The trailer shows off a number of familiar elements from the game series, including the assassins’ iconic hood and wrist blades, but the film’s story and setting are entirely new. Rather than following the story of the original game, which primarily took place in and around Jerusalem during the Third Crusade (c. 1191 CE), the Assassin’s Creed film will split its time between modern-day character Callum Lynch (Fassbender) and his 15th century Spanish ancestor, Aguilar de Nehra (also Fassbender).

While the film is not a direct adaptation of the original Assassin’s Creed game, it appears to share a number of the same story elements, most notably with the lead character being held prisoner and forced to relive his ancestor’s memories by Abstergo, the shady multinational company that serves as the lead modern-day antagonist in the series. The trailer also shows Callum Lynch picking up his ancestor’s abilities, something that occurred with Desmond Miles, the modern-day protagonist of the game series up through Assassin’s Creed III.

One of the hallmarks of the Assassin’s Creed game series is its stunning recreations of historic locations, from medieval Jerusalem to Victorian London, and the film certainly seems to be following that tradition with its epic panoramic shots of 15th century Spain.

Unfortunately, most of the sequences set in the past seem to be colored with an Instagram filter, since apparently the past looked super drab. Meanwhile, the modern segments are all tinted in Matrix green, which seems fitting given how much of the film’s action appears to be heavily inspired by The Matrix, complete with slow motion jumps across rooftops.

Still, even if some of the actions shots look a bit derivative, they also seem exciting and certainly fit with the acrobatic combat from the game series, and the film appears to have the plenty of wall-climbing parkour nonsense that is perhaps the most iconic element of the games.

Hopefully the next trailer will reveal more about the actual story, but if nothing else, the Assassin’s Creed film looks like it will at least be fun and well-designed, something most video game movies fail to accomplish.

You can watch the full trailer for Assassin’s Creed below:

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