Watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Great adaptation of the great board game

The long-awaited film based on the cult board game Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, has been released in Russian cinemas.

To be honest, my expectations were quite low. The first promos and trailers looked directly and did not inspire confidence. Yes, and the game has a fairly obligatory fan base (albeit mainly abroad), fans are always hard to please.

We have already reviewed the novelty and accumulated some impressions from it. Perhaps someone should still wait for the last issue, which will take place on May 16th.

Welcome back to your beloved universe

For those who still don’t know for some reason, I’ll briefly say what kind of game this is. In short, this is a popular tabletop RPG that is deeply written in the local all-round environment of not-so-thick books. Each of them is responsible for the plot, quests, monsters and so on.

Players constantly communicate with each other, move further along the plot and eventually reach the result. Confusing and incomprehensible? Yes, but it will take a long time to fully review the rules, and that’s not what we’re talking about now.

The most important thing here is that the original game, created in 1974, formed the basis of many universes, cartoons and role-playing games: from Baldur’s Gate to Warcraft. She is constantly paid tribute, collected by many artists and hidden during Easter eggs. But really worthwhile adaptations to date, probably, have not been.

What is the movie about: Edgin Darvis, along with the loyal warrior Holga, team up with the absent-minded mage Simon, the agile druid Dorik, and the prim paladin Zenk to recover a lost relic, an extremely heavy load.

However, things quickly go awry when the villain Forge is on his way.

The authors of the novelty are clearly set to launch a film franchise that will not have a one-time answer. They decided to arrange several universes in the film at once. No, not even like that.

This is a peculiar universe in which the features of other worlds are recognizable: here are the snow-covered locations that disappeared with the Game of Thrones (dragons, it seems, are also from there), and the indestructible “monster masher” a la The Witcher, and even the hilarious Guardians galaxy.” From the latter, the manner of conducting light and unpretentious humor really passed, while a team of heroes flaunts in front of us, each of which is gradually revealed to one degree or another.

This movie is unbelievable, almost unbelievable everyone remembers something. They do not need a background, these are chips on a huge playing field. And you interact with each of them in one way or another, going through stage after stage, more and more rapidly approaching the final.

The performer of one of the main representatives, Chris Pine, promoted the picture for a long time, and the producers constantly held on to power on the advice of Kevin Feige, one of the authors of the xelenin Marvel, who suggested not postponing ideas for later, but implementing them immediately.

This had a strong impact on the general meeting, director John Francis Daly, who shot the popular TV series In the Dark, constantly mixes different genres and tries to turn everything upside down.

In a number of moments, he directly decides the fate of people “live”.

A movie that plays by the rules

Bard, druid, barbarian – they all have their own traits that relate to a certain class and “created” character. Each actor plays a role that meets at the general meeting.

The whole picture is filled with Easter eggs, references and small gags implemented from the board game universe. The same dragon feels the effect of purity: you expected a good part of the timing, it did not appear so suddenly and frighten the phenomenon, but it appears once with its appearance because you, that it will appear in case of occurrence. This is pure fanservice.

The picture has been discovered to be produced since 2013. However, it was ready only in the first half of 2021. However, the release was pushed back several times, first due to the pandemic, then due to protection concerns.

The writers-producers made an amazing delivery on the visual. Monsters and surroundings become natural, the viewer literally transfers himself to alternating locations. This is the amplification and audio accompaniment that is played on emotions.

You are definitely probable in this world

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a good example of how to flirt with viewers who don’t know anything about the structure of a picture at all.

The authors of the novelty were able to fully penetrate the game on wide screens. And even those who do not understand this universe are completely absorbed. This is a great base that will help them play the iconic board game.