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Meh.
It's not a horrible movie, the premise seemed like it could have been fun.
But I did not care about the main character, Aren.
It's a writing fail.
The white dude he's supposed to be magicking up, Jason, is unlikeable; that part succeeded. He didn't deserve the assistance the ASMN was giving him with his job and certainly didn't deserve to win the heart of the girl.
But the main character didn't really do the needful about earning her love either.
She likes him because the script says she should.
Justice Smith is playing the same basic character he portrayed in D&D Honor Among Thieves.
I dunno if he lacks range or the director said do like you did before.
The big speech that's supposed to evoke white guilt fails to land. What it really gets me thinking is Aren has been attributing how he's felt about himself to outside forces when it was from within all along. The way he explains it to Jason underscores it and Jason's reaction to it pounds it home.
In the end, it's not bad, but it's also not good.
I'd skip it; but I already watched it.
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