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The master thief Garrett has returned to put Ezio and his brotherhood to shame, showing them how to really pickpocket an un-expecting guard and swiftly get away with it in complete stealth fashion, no hidden blades required. After the events of an accident Garrett is left unconscious for a year and returns to a city that is infested by a plague, the Gloom, and run by a baron that does even give a second thought to the poor which is starting to incite a revolution. Somehow all these factors relate to the accident that occurred 1 year ago and throughout your many thieving jobs you unravel the conspiracy and uncover the truth. While this tale sounds like an interesting through line for the story to take place on it is executed poorly at every turn. The cut scenes that valuable story details are given in are terrible; with bad lip syncing, boring dialogue accompanied by just as dull characters, and flat movement within the cut scenes. They really seem like early pre-beta, sloppy versio...

Seeing your childhood come to life on the big screen hasn’t always produced the best of products, Batman and Robin we’re looking at you, but with this hilarious tale of revolution, heroism and Legos, the Lego movie has definitely succeeded in this dream, and done so astoundingly. The story for the movie is surprisingly well put together with some surprising twists and turns; not just being an awkward arbitrary construct for the jokes to be plastered over like so many other movies tend to do. The Lego movie stars your typical, average Joe, Lego man: Emmet (Chris Pratt), who has been thrust from his ordinary life and into the adventurous role of the ‘chosen one’ and must save the entire Lego world from being frozen by Lord Business (Will Ferrell). Sounds fun right? Well that is exactly what this movie is, pure childish but surprisingly smart fun. Bringing the Lego to life is CGI but you wouldn’t be blamed if you thought what was unravelling on screen was produced with the actual pie...