Review of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) by Sir_Castel — 10 Apr 2023

A Solid movie. It isn't the best film ever made, however, it's worth watching. It keeps the soul of DnD; in some scenes though the eyes of some secondary character you can really see the hate of the DM just after a member of the party has completely destroyed his plans.

The plot is fairly linear and simple, but not obvious or stupid, just like a one-shot. It's enjoyable by both DnD veterans and those who never heard what DnD is: the story is well explained so that everyone can understand it, but DnD veterans won't be bored because they will be focused on pointing out every single reference and hint to classes, locations, abilities, spells and so forth.

The locations are wonderfully made, the atmosphere is not bad at all thanks to a solid soundtrack, the outfits are astounding (with few exceptions), and the characters are quite characterized and well-made.

Even though some reviews talk about wokeness and cast diversity, it's never brought up in the film and the cast diversity doesn't seem forced. However, it has few flaws: most of the action scenes are full with blinding lights, mediocre VFXs and hundreds of cuts and horribles camera movements that prevent you from understanding what happens.

And finally most of the CGI is mediocre (except from the final scenes). If you like watching fantasy films or you like DnD you'll surely love it, and even if you don't love fantasy films I think you will probably still like it due to it's light-hearted comedy; just don't expect an action packed film, or a film filled with intrigue or high emotions, but a simple solid, light-hearted fantasy film.