Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Running Time: 1h 35m
Cast: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Katheryn Winnick
Movie Score: 15%
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The Dark Tower, by Stephen King is considered as one of the best novels and is a greatly popular book series among its readers. But, The Dark Tower, adapted on the big screen, by Nikolaj Arcel will leave you finding the most minimalistic good things in it-since it is lacking too many!
This sci-fi ‘drama’ is a story about a 14 year old boy Jake (Tom Taylor) who gets protection by the hero Roland (Idris Elba) from a mystery villain Walter (Matthew McConaughey), who wants to destroy a tower that holds two universes, Keystone Earth and Mid-World (some fictional realms from the Stephen King’s novel). That’s the short synopsis for this otherwise badly-turned out-movie.
Just coming onto the performance part (since there wasn’t much to discuss about the plot and the scenes), Idris Elba as the hero, Roland shines in this completely gone haywire story with a bad writing, weak screenplay and downright meaningless presentation.
On the other hand, the villain, Walter, played by Matthew McConaughey is just there to fill the gap for another character who can stand against the protagonist i.e Roland, along with Jake, the teenage boy, who’s having no idea of what’s going on with him (just like the audience would think while watching this movie).
There’s nothing about the film that can be called like, “OK. That is good, though.” On part of the direction itself, there might have been some error from the side of Nikolaj Arcel, in reading the original Dark Tower book and as a result-this movie happened! You can’t always escape with all those CGI created scenes and gloriously timed effects to woo the people-they are not stupid. The director should have given a thought to this.
Hope, that in near future if a reboot adaptation is made, it will be a decent attempt on Stephen King’s great long series.
