Review of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) by Jluis_001 — 31 Mar 2023

My knowledge about Dungeons & Dragons is basically null.

I only have a small understanding of the most elemental stuff about it and I must confess that because of this and because the movie didn't necessarily look appealing I wasn't so sure about watching it, but for that same reason I didn't predispose myself to anything and for that, watching Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves turned out to be a pleasant and fun surprise for me.

I don't know to what extent its charm will be enough to build the franchise it's evidently aiming to build, but it has the cast and formula to work if things don't get out of hand. I admit that it can feel a bit heavy at first because the story throws a lot at you to digest and the plot doesn't do the best job explaining its own world, but as far as I'm concerned it's more than comprehensible to any viewer. It's all a matter of paying enough attention.

The power of this movie lies in how much you are willing to immerse yourself in its fantasy, because everything revolves around it.

It's a kind of world that reminded me a bit of the Warcraft movie, but where Duncan Jones failed to introduce such a humongous world, John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein succeed in making this experience more humorous, more fun, more lighthearted, much more accessible and above all more exciting, and that also has a lot to do with the cast. There is chemistry in all of them, even when the group of actors look like a troupe of cosplayers, and the truth is that this helps a lot in any movie to advance the narrative in a better way. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a solid action/fantasy film that fits quite nicely into the spectrum of big franchises in CGI worlds. Worthy for fans and non-fans alike. If you understand that, then go and have a nice entertaining time because if you're expecting an art-film filled with super deep themes and want to judge it that way, then you are choosing your own disappointment.