It’s a movie about a kid ( Tom Taylor) who finds his way into another world. The Dark Tower just kind of there, firing off a few action scenes before disappearing from your mind.Ī big part is that The Dark Tower is altogether too serious for its own good. Somehow, the adaptation manages to make multiple worlds, sci-fi portals, a supernaturally powerful cowboy Idris Elba, and a mustache-twirling Matthew McConaughey just kind of … dull. Instead, The Dark Tower is just kind of there, firing off a few interesting-looking action scenes and distracting you with Stephen King references, before ending and disappearing from your mind. The Dark Tower is too thin to be exceptionally bad it’s missing too much of its worldbuilding, and it’s too light on stakes and character to be the kind of movie that bewilders or annoys. It’s a movie that has obvious load-bearing framework missing, like a gunslinger who just lost the draw but hasn’t quite yet realized that he’s supposed to fall over. The Dark Tower is more unremarkable than it is odious. Okay it’s not abysmal, exactly, but it’s by no means especially good. Just have a look at its Rotten Tomatoes score. Even without reading other reviews, the zeitgeist has it that the adaptation of Stephen King’s epic book series, which has seen a struggle to get made for years, is abysmal. Despite being based on Stephen King’s Western fantasy magnum opus, The Dark Tower is mundane and underdeveloped.īefore composing this The Dark Tower review, I expected to hate the movie.

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