Anssi Vartiainen As someone who has played D&D for years, I can only marvel how this movie even manages to exist. It feels like someone literally took their campaign notes and used them as a script. It's not a movie inspired by roleplaying games, it's not based on any single campaign. It simply is a campaign, word for word.And for what it is, it's amazing. The world of Dungeons & Dragons is transferred to the silver screen in all of its geeky glory. Men of might and valor set worth from their rural origins to battle great evil. Necromancers openly walk the streets, mass murdering people left and right with their black magic. Because that's what you do when you're evil. Loot is gathered, and even sold in stores, using the geekiest names imaginable. Dragons are slain, forces vanquished and damsels saved. It's glorious.It's also stupid beyond all belief, don't get me wrong, but that's how we like it. The acting is surprisingly decent, given the budget, but it's still pretty terrible. The technical aspects show the lack of budget and the story... well, as stated, I think they simply used the campaign notes instead of writing an actual script.This movie has a lot of "so bad it's good" value to it, especially if you're a gamer. It's bad, it's oh so bad, but it's entertaining as well. Exercise caution and bring a bowl of popcorn.

siderite The evolution of the Dungeons&Dragons films is strange. It started with a Hollywood crapfest, filled with special effects, comic relief and known actors, but having no story, continued with something that felt more like a D&D plot, but was acted abysmally and finished with this, which has a good storyline, interesting characters and is truly entertaining. Somehow, the third movie is the best. But hold your horses, not all is rosy.The first thing that you notice is that the plot is complex: characters are evolving constantly, there is no clear delimitation of good and evil and there are several chapters of the story that are each strong on their own. This is probably due to the script being adapted after a book, even if a D&D one.The second thing you notice is how badly is Jack Derges acting. I understand that he is a newbie actor, but he sucks. Probably brought on because of his looks, he can't act to save his life. However the other actors more than make up for it: Eleanor Gecks is beautiful and has that witchy charm that was required while Barry Aird is indeed making the film interesting. He totally acted and looked like a young William Sadler in this.Of course, there are some painfully bad scenes as well, however not that many. The spells were original and entertaining, the fights were few, but decent, and again, there was a story and characters that I could feel and root for. The budget was low, but if Grayson and his dad would have been played by better actors, I think this would have been a good movie, one that people would have been glad to see and recommend. It certainly doesn't deserve the low rating on IMDb.

janehere If you haven't watched this movie, Don't do it. I did it, trusting on a positive review here, and it was a complete waste of time. Spoilers are marked on this review.The characters were bland. The professional assassins were just sociopaths. The ONLY black person in the movie was "coincidently" the only character whose skin was all painted over. The only female character who isn't a whore, decides that one day after meeting the hero that "her body belongs to him" for his pleasure, and from then on she's just madly in love with him for no reason. This of course, was after she was the one who needed saving from a dragon, and the knight had to go save her. Not clichéd at all, of course.*SPOILERS* The plot was so weak. If one of the Knights of the New Sun code was to not have sex, how come Grayson even exists? His father clearly broke that vow. And why would it be needed a Knight of Light's blood to make the ink for the Book of Vile Darkness? It wasn't said at any point that it had to come from a "good guy", and it'd be way more logical to come from a bad one. Was it for the irony? It just didn't make sense.And then the move just ends with him them saying goodbye. It was badly done, it just seemed like they ran out of things to say so they called it a stop. I was expecting a conclusion made like the introduction was, telling us how Grayson destroyed or hid the book parts again, but apparently the future of the book is irrelevant for the movie called The Book of Vile Darkness.

tronlab Much closer to the soul of the game play than the other two movies. I loved it. I just wish Ed Greenwood and R. A. Salvatore would hook up with someone huge in the movie business and make the Forgotten Realms come to life. Until that day happens, it's nice to see the concept morph into better and better movies. Vin Diesel, if you read this, I think you might be able to make this happen, if you really want too. Just an idea, oh, and it would be really cool if you were in the "movies" too. Charlie Sheen would make an awesome Elminster. If he can grasp the paralleled pieces of his his life and Elminsters, it would be a cinch for the role.