So there’s very little to say here. The movie has action sequences that are successfully comprehensible, it has humorous bits that successfully lighten the tone, and it pulls in buckets full of Forgotten Realms (and D&D more generally) lore without drowning the movie in trivia.

(Though I will say: On that latter point, I think there’s something to how the parade of fantasy adaptations and Marvel movies have trained audiences to just roll with a barrage of incomprehensible proper nouns these days. If you released this movie twenty years ago, critics would be big mad about how many meaningless names were dropped.)

It’s not an especially great movie, but it was never trying to be. It’s a basic 3-star “watch it on TNT some Sunday afternoon” movie, and that means it’s basically a total success that achieved everything it hoped to. Also it kinda made me want to read a Forgotten Realms book or something, which means it’s working for Hasbro, too.