DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES
A father, a stolen daughter, and a rousing quest home.
Should You Watch It?
Here's the good news up front: this is a four-star crowd-pleaser with a real heart. A former thief named Edgin gathers a team of friends to rescue his kidnapped daughter — and the film builds its whole emotional center on that father-daughter bond. It's funny, it's rousing, and it lands a great, satisfying ending.
The cautions are modest but real. There's foul language, there are scary monsters, and there is a great deal of magic — the main villain is a demonic sorceress, and the heroes must defeat her to save a kingdom and thousands of souls. That's the reason we'd hold off for younger, more sensitive children.
So if you have older children, teens, or you're an adult who loves fantasy adventure, this one earns its trip to the theater. If you're choosing for little ones — or your family steers clear of magical worlds — this may be a wait or a pass.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESA former thief named Edgin has lost nearly everything — and now he's lost his daughter, Kira, kidnapped by a former colleague named Forge. Worse, Forge has usurped a kingdom with the help of an evil sorceress, and has fed Kira a pack of lies to turn her heart against her own father.
To win her back, Edgin must prove Forge lied. That means gathering a team — a warrior, a young wizard, a shapeshifter — and pulling off the kind of quest that could get them all killed. What lies between Edgin and his daughter is monsters, magic, and a locked vault. And that's all we'll give away.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars, and the film earns them. This is a rousing, redemptive action adventure with a lot of heart and humor, and the cast handles all the action, jeopardy, and winsome, dramatic dialogue with ease.
Chris Pine anchors it as the flawed but charming hero, and his relationship with his daughter — played by the superb young actress Chloe Coleman — is the movie's beating heart. Michelle Rodriguez brings her own heartwarming bond with the girl as the fun-to-watch female warrior. And Regé-Jean Page nearly steals the whole show as a knight with a pure heart.
There are some expository scenes to wade through — the story opens mid-tale and fills in the backstory as it goes — but the film tops it all off with a great, satisfying ending.
The Worldview
For a big fantasy adventure, this one carries a surprisingly strong moral and redemptive spine. It's set in a world with allusions to a heaven and a hell, and its central conflict is clear: a demonic sorceress seeks to seize a kingdom and destroy its people, and the heroes must defeat her to save thousands of souls. Evil is evil here, and good is worth fighting for.
The film's warmest thread is Edgin himself. He's a father estranged from his daughter — she's been virtually kidnapped and fed lies by the con man who betrayed him. His whole quest is to win her back with the truth. Along the way, a knight with a pure heart openly urges Edgin to return to the noble path he abandoned after his wife's murder. That call to leave thievery behind and become again the man he was is a real redemptive movement, and the film treats it as such.
The obvious caution is the magical world the story lives in — wizards, spells, and dark sorcery run through the whole adventure. Parents who avoid such content should weigh that plainly. But note who the villains are: the powers of darkness, and a selfish liar who serves them. In the end it's the teamwork and self-giving of friends that wins the day.
Underneath it runs a father's fierce love for a child who's been turned against him — an echo of the God who runs to meet the child who was lost. "For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found" (Luke 15:24).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong moral, redemptive worldview set in a fantasy world with allusions to a heaven and a hell where the main villain is a demonic female wizard and the secondary, but more personal, villain is a selfish, lying con man who’s helping the main villain but for his own personal goals and betrayed the main hero, heroes restore a kingdom to its rightful ruler and save the citizens, and the movie’s morally uplifting, redemptive premise surrounds the story of the main hero who’s been estranged from his daughter because she was virtually kidnapped and fed lies about him by the secondary villain who betrayed her father, the main hero, and the father is helped by his friends and by a knight with a pure heart who overtly encourages the father to return to the noble path on which he used to be engaged, but the fantasy world involves magic where one of the secondary heroes, a young wizard, must battle the main villain, the dark wizard, though in the end it’s the teamwork by the group of heroes that helps them defeat both the main villain and the secondary villain
Foul Language
14 or 15 obscenities (including several “s” and several “d” words) and two light exclamatory OG profanities
Violence
Lots of often scary action violence and jeopardy, some of it involving fighting monsters, dragons and demonic sorcerers, including narrow escapes, monsters chase and try to eat heroes and other people, some hand-to-hand fighting, heroes magically wake skeletons of soldiers who died in battle to ask them five questions to gain important information (scene is played for comedy), demonic wizards turn people into pliable zombies in a flashback scene, two characters bust through a wall with a talking bird character to escape a prison, man finds his beloved wife murdered, sword fighting, arrow pierces a soldier’s head in a battle scene, evil sorceress hurls fireballs
Sex
No sex scenes, but a large man tries to take advantage of a strong female warrior, but the woman kicks him in the legs hard enough to break them and shoves his head down to knock him out and light innuendo when the same woman talks to her ex-husband in a comical scene and learns he’s with another woman (he seems to be some kind of ladies’ man but it’s a very light implication), plus young man pines for a young female, but it’s not salacious
Nudity
No nudity
Alcohol Use
Some alcohol use and man gets drunk after his wife is murdered
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking or drugs;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Stealing, attempted stealing, deception of a young child against her widowed father, some redistribution of stolen treasure, .
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Edgin turns to thievery after his wife's murder, and a knight with a pure heart calls him back to the noble path he left. Have you ever needed someone to call you back? Who is that person for you?
Galatians 6:1 · James 5:19–20Forge wins Kira over by feeding her lies about her own father. How does the enemy work the same way — turning us against a Father who loves us?
John 8:44 · Romans 8:15–16The heroes win not as lone champions but through teamwork and self-giving. Where does Scripture say we need each other to stand?
Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 · 1 Corinthians 12:12Edgin crosses every danger to rescue a child who's been turned against him. How is his love a picture of the way God pursues the lost?
Luke 15:11–24The Final Word
This is a rare fantasy blockbuster with a genuinely moral, redemptive heart — a father's love, a call to be better, and a great, satisfying ending, all wrapped in humor and adventure. Just know it comes with some rough language, scary monsters, and a world full of magic. For teens, adults, and older kids with a parent nearby, it's worth the trip — ages 10 and up.
