John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein's Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a sharply written visual feast of both fantasy heroism and more mundane matters like family, sacrifice and devotion.
Based on the venerable role-playing game, the movie's sporting cast is led by Chris Pine as Edgin, a minstrel schemer, and Edgin's rogueing companion Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) who take on a mission that combines vengeance and looting. The tenor of this outlandish film leaves no doubt which of the two will be fulfilled in the last reel.
Joining Edgin and Holga are an under-achieving scam artist / sorcerer named Simon (Justice Smith of The Get Down and Jurassic World series), a shape-shifter named Doric (Sophia Lillis of the IT horror series) and Reger-Jean Page as Xenx, a humorless, overly literal warrior prince who possesses knowledge that could lead the band to a storehouse of treasures and the underworld.
The story, which is wonderfully written, is all over the place, which is not to say it is incomprehensible -- it is a well-told tale -- but it is a breathless adventure moving across many landscapes and times and dimensions, but never loses the thread of the quest or its sense of fun -- which is immense.
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