the film identifies Legendarium, Arthurian legend and The Man with No Name as inspirations.

Oh dear. I've made it clear in my Shining reviews that I don't care if a film adaptation is accurate to the source material, as long as the changes make sense or make the movie better. The changes did not make the movie better. I haven't read the books yet but I know there were changes and it really shows. It's also just quite boring. It's like the Stephen King version of Thor: The Dark World. For one thing, it makes little sense. It starts with a boy called Jake having dreams about a weird world and trying to find it. Then all these things just happen to him quickly that didn't make much sense, then he met Roland who gave up on the Tower to track down Walter aka Randall Flagg, then they go on a quest to stop him, then other things happened. What? Not to mention, condensing 4250 pages into 90 minutes is a stupid idea. It'd need a 온라인카지노추천 show, like what Mike Flanagan is working on, which I can't wait for, or at least a miniseries. But you can tell with how many ideas are crammed into the short runtime we have that they didn't know what they were doing. It's like if they got plotlines from the series on a whiteboard and threw darts to see which ones they'd adapt. It's ridiculous. But this movie has good bits in all the bad, like the visuals. But it's mostly bad. Overall, it has good parts but it's just rather boring.

There are 5 great SK adaptations, a few decent ones, and a few hilariously awful ones. This falls into none of those categories, being barely decent, and only because of the excellent acting by Idris, Matthew, Tom Taylor, and a small part by the beautiful Katheryn Winnick. If you’ve read the saga of The Dark Tower and Roland’s adventures, you know what a deep, disturbing, imaginative, and adventurous story it is. A 1.5 hour movie doesn’t do it justice at all. Still, this poorly adapted Cliff Notes version is worth the time.

The Dark Tower Universe is interesting. So interesting that you hope the movie would give you more of itself. I enjoyed it. Overall, it's a good movie, not a great movie, but still worth a watch.

For the average viewer: it is a bad Spielberg movie. For the stephen king's reader: it is just like, if "Avengers: Infinity War", was about Tony Stark met Happy Hogan to beat Thanos directly, yes, that disjointed. It takes out so much information about +40 years of books that it is unbearable. when the original source outmatches the movie, it feels rushed, this is just another example. Imagine some guy probably on meth wanted to rush Harry Potter in just one short movie.

As long as you come into this movie with low expectations, you won't be disappointed. Don't watch this looking for Stephen King's Dark Tower. This isn't it. This is 7 books squeezed into 1 1/2 hours. Character development is almost nil. The story feels rushed, The actors phoned it in. As for the ending, it was very anticlimactic. It's good if there is really nothing else interesting to you on.

I endured 30 or so cycles of the sadistic sound editing to understand that the screenplay was the modern equivalent of Disney's Jungle Book, where Walt specifically made sure he didn't even know any of the actual story... or whatever philistine was tasked with adapting "Starship Troopers" who obviously read those two words and no more.

I can't even imagine how this screenplay was adapted from the books, or how anyone involved can live with themselves. It's like an early AI model wrote it based on a one-sentence synopsis of the story concept. Probably the worst movie with the most prestigious actors I've ever suffered through.

This is the first time I've written a review of a movie in years. My thoughts, no character development, poor story telling, poor acting phone in performances. Typical of new movies.

Having read the book series over years, this movie is such a far off adaptation of the books. The only thing even remotely similar is the names of the characters. Nothing else is even close. The movie is difficult to watch, even if you watch it as a standalone movie.

Solid sci-fi. Not sure why so much hate for this movie. Kept me engaged and entertained the entire time.

Overall cool movie. Very interesting universe and love the main cast. I love Idris Elba and I thought that Matthew McConaughey played the villain very well. However, the film felt rushed and could have used another hour to fill in the gaps better. The ending was a bit abrupt.

Stayed superficial the whole time. This could be an amazing movie if done right. No plot or character development.

Pew pew pew pew. Let's get our .50 cal pistol and wreck newbie demons. Pew, pew. My 12 year old self rejoiced at this movie, the rest of me not so much. Bizzare, abrupt ending that leaves a major plot hole. The movie is entertaining if a easy target for the YouTube shows that tear apart B Movies

Summary - No soul, barely coherent, shallow, a waste of an epic book series. Decent acting and good effects. Forgettable soundtrack. I read the books. This is a loose framework of the Dark Tower universe that Steven King made with maybe 1 or 2 chapters out of several books of what happens in the story done in the movie, the rest is a creative exercise by inferior writers to bridge the work of Steven King in a 90 minute screenplay. The acting and casting wasn't too bad, but there is no way a good Dark Tower adaptation can be done without at least 3 120 minute movies. This feels like an attempt to keep a hold of a license to make King movies by pumping out something that covers the bases.

I haven’t read the entire series, but overall the film seemed to express a summarized version of the books. For a film running about 1hr 35min, I felt it was executed well. Great effects for 2017, the final Matrix-style scene between Roland and Walter was pretty cool. 4/5 would be 5/5 if it was a bit longer and more immersive.

I could not even get through the first 30 minutes without being so bored. Only reason why this is not a 0 out of ten is because of Mathew mcaunahay and Idris elba because at least they tried from what I saw

The good news is, if you have never read The Dark Tower series, there are no spoilers in this adaptation. The bad news, if you have read the Dark Tower, it will get awkward.

Other than having characters with the same names and a few plot lines that match the series of books, this was a huge miss.

The dark tower series is King's magnum opus, the greatest novels he's ever written or will ever write again, and the movie did it justice in every way. By combining storylines and scenes and characters from at least four of the novels it all came together beautifully. I loved it in the theater and have watched my own DVD copy of it at least twenty times since. Still thrills and moves me everytime. My personal favorite King adaptation of all time.