The Dark Tower

2017 • 94 minit

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Based on the best-selling book series by highly-acclaimed author Stephen King. The last Gunslinger, Roland (Idris Elba), has been locked in an eternal battle with the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the epic battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.

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As a huge fan of the Dark Tower Series, I would have to say the only relevance to this movie is the title, a tower that is dark, the wizard Walter, the Gunslinger Roland Deschain, and Jake Chanmbers. The movie throws other phrases and cues in from random references of the books, however the story is terrible. I am glad I only rented this for 99 cents. I would not watch it again for free. If you read the books, you'll get a few references, like the breakers, the beams and the house Jake gets drawn from. That's pretty much all the ties to the books. There is no Eddie, or Sussanah, no drawings of the three, or even the one Jake. Instead the story is comprimised of Roland who is after Walter because he killed his father. Jake falls into Rolands lap and has some tremebdous psychic abilities, which Roland hopes to use to break the tower. There is an unbelievable amount of portal travel. No Charlie the Choo Choo, or wheelchair. The one huge fallacy that completey removed any sense of the books, was that they portray Roland's focus to be revenge on Walter with no care for the finding the Tower, which if you've read the books, this is completely untrue. Anywyas, that's my two cents.

I've never read the Dark Tower but i've read LOTR and i know the difference between a great book and a semi-okay cash grab (don't go for the UHD 45.00 version you will be very disappointed) but all this just felt really rushed without any real development and felt like an ending chapter in the final book of a trilogy. It could have been done way better, and has more potential than the movie "IT" (i guess thats where the money went, but with IT - i don't see many areas where you'd SPEND that money, whereas with the Dark Tower it could have been dragged out for ages with beautiful craftsmanship and detail). I don't understrand why they just didn't wait until IT made a few billion and THEN make the Dark Tower so much better and earn 100 times more. People.

Not even close to being good. Such a waste of time and money. The story felt very thrown together and pointless. They could have done something great but they didn't. I doubt we'll get another chance to climb to the top of the Tower on the big screen. Detta Walker's lack of trust for Roland is gone forever. Such short sight sightedness on the production department... Stephen King was an idiot for not writing the screen play. Hope he laughed all the way to the bank. Typical corporate greed is obviously his problem. A reboot is the only solution to this mess. Start in the Desert and End in Desert. The entire story of the Dark Tower is in the first line of the Magnum Opus. "The Man in Black fled across the Desert and the Gunslinger followed"!!!