This CNN review is actually one of the more favorable reviews of the Dungeons & Dragons movie, which says the film is “like “Star Wars” with the flavor chewed out of it.”
Paul Tatara adds,
It’s so poorly executed, you start to feel like you’re watching the world’s most expensive script run-through. Director Courtney Solomon just sticks it up on the screen and hopes for the best. He seems incapable of building tension from scene to scene, and he’s an extremely poor judge of comic relief.
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Borderline inept, “Dungeons & Dragons” is one of the worst movies of the year. If it had only been released a few weeks later, it could have been one of the worst movies of next year.
Ouch. Tatara doesn’t mention it, but several reviews also noted that Marlon Wayans’ wisecracking, bumbling thief character comes off as the sort of stereotypical marginal role that black actors were relegated to in years past in Hollywood.