Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves: An action-comedy that's a huge pile of fun
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (M, 134 mins) Directed by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein ****
One thing I can't tell you about Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, is how closely it is based on the game and whether fans of Dungeons & Dragons will appreciate what the film achieves.
I have no idea because the one and only time anyone invited me to play D&D, I decided that sitting around a table rolling dice with a perfectly lovely group of humanities students was not what I wanted to be doing of a Friday night.
So I created a character for myself who I figured would be killed in about five minutes. And, sure enough, I was at the pub before the blood had time to go cold in the veins of my blind, polio-ridden, pacifist Dwarf. Rest in peace, Spanky. You deserved better.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves is written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. They are the team who wrote the original Horrible Bosses in 2010, contributed to Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017 and wrote and directed Game Night in 2018. In short, they have some seriously good and entertaining films on their Cvs' already. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves isn't going to hurt their reputations at all.
The film is set in, err, wherever D&D is supposed to take place. We are dropped into a backstory involving a Harper (some sort of D&D policeman, I'm thinking?) and a tragedy that left him trying to raise a baby daughter alone. He turns to crime and finds a band of
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