Cal Lynch - a criminal with a difficult childhood, who was executed and than revived by a very strange organization, which is in search of an artifact called 'Apple', which is able to heal humanity from violence. And of course, to find it they need to kill a few people.
From the very beginning, the film shows itself as a tedious and in most cases meaningless. Some shots and scenes are so long and boring, that you don't appreciate the story or the characters. The dialogues are so banal that they don't satisfy in any way. This movie clearly suffers from trying to be philosophical and intelligent, but appearing to be stupid and vague.
Reborn, Cal (Michael Fassbender) meets up with Sophia (Marion Cotillard), who manages experiments with people, which are helping her and her father (Jeremy Irons), the head of the organization, to find the 'Apple' and provide discovery to some secret meeting. Each of these three actors I mentioned are talented and brilliant, but I've never seen such a waste of talent, as it was in this film (there somewhere was Brendan Gleeson too, for a couple of seconds ) . No movie needs these kind of actors to do stone faces and speak simple dialogs all their screen time.
Experimentation are held on a futuristic machine that allows a person to connect his mind with his ancestor and see the past through his eyes. Sofia wants to find the 'Apple', talking some idealistic nonsense to her patients, that through their participation they will make the world a better place, but after all they only get sick of using this machine. As it turns out, the main link in search of this 'Apple' is Cal Lynch, who is a descendant of Aguilar - the last person, who knew where the artifact is. In this machine, Cal, suspended on a robotic installation, must connect to his ancestor and repeat Aguilar's running, jumping and fighting, so the scientists around would see through the past. Aguilar was one of the assassins, sworn to defend the 'Apple'. They were trying to protect it from the world, so it's probably not meant for healing, but rather bad things. That is why assassins were trying to keep it a secret. Because in this movie they are the 'good guys', doing everything for the good of the mankind.
By the middle, the movie starts to fall apart. It just doesn't entertain, due to it's poor execution. Scenes of fighting in the fifteenth century are the only good in the film. But they were messed up too. Despite an excellent stunt work, cool fighting scenes are ruined by constant switching between Fassbender, spinning on the machine and scenes in the fifteenth century. Even in those moments, in which the scenes of fighting are shown consistently, the shots are changing so quickly, that it is very hard to understand and enjoy what's going on. It is literally unwatchable. Actually, there are some nice and entertaining moments in this movie, Fassbender tried to be great as always, and I liked Aguilar's sidekick Maria (Ariane Labed), she was really good, at least tried to do something exceptional in a given her short time. But all these moments were overshadowed by a huge amount of negatives about this film.
It could have been such a good idea, but overall it appeared to be terribly executed and misunderstood by the people, who created it. I think it is sloppy, boring and senseless. This movie is so disappointing and poorly done, that I just want to ask people who made it: - "what were you thinking?".
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