4K Ultra HD Film Review

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023) • 4K Ultra HD

A charming thief and a band of adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Based on the famous tabletop role-playing game, which was itself inspired by J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings novels, it made sense that New Line Cinema tried to make Dungeons & Dragons into a franchise as Peter Jackson’s fantasy trilogy was poised to debut. Why not dominate this new realm of imagination on two fronts? But while LOTR went on to become an Academy Award-winning blockbuster saga that helped “geek culture” go mainstream, Dungeons & Dragons (2000) was a forgotten and embarrassing footnote. Two worse sequels followed in 2005 and 2012, meaning D&D is still thought of as the domain of nerds throwing six-sided die and painting little plastic figurines. Until now…?

It makes sense Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves take a different approach to the aforementioned films, and even the 1980s cartoon series begging for a…