Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, now in home screen too!
“…how everyone thinks we can solve any problem with magic. There are limits! This isn’t some bedtime story; this is the real world!”
A movie arrives on the screens that is certainly highly anticipated by fans of the famous role-playing game of the same name, which relies on a well-tested formula to try to be appreciated by the widest possible audience. In fact, we are faced with a simple plot, without particular narrative ambitions: in fact a classic hero’s journey (or heroes, in this case) with a pinch of bildungsroman, which however, regardless of your cinematic knowledge, at the end of the viewing will likely leave you with a smile.
In fact, it should be considered that the film has the arduous task of including many elements in just over two hours, and it can be said that all in all it succeeds in its intent: it conveys the idea of the vastness of the world in which the characters travel, even if, compressing travel times to a minimum, often shows the lands crossed in suggestive tracking shots but ends in themselves and a staging that is not always in focus; it provides the characters with an evolutionary path, even if some are sacrificed to almost caricatured figures; presents a certain variety of ethnic groups and introduces the magical potential of some of them, without going into how and why these…
