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Saturday, August 5, 2017

[4.75/10] The Dark Tower (2017)

The Dark Tower (2017)

Quick Review: Badly-adapted from King's thematically complex material, "The Dark Tower" basically contains three decent scenes -- the gunfight one, the hospital one, and the final combat, with the second being the only funny moment in this lackluster misfire. All the rest of it is a rushed cheese-fest with zero thrills, minimal action, and many cliches, further let down by a colorless tone and spotty CGIs that make it look low-cost. Elba and McConaughey are solid, but the poor script wastes them.

4 comments:

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

And it's barely an hour and a half long. Considering the amount of source material, that's short.
Glad I skipped it.

George Beremov [Nebular] said...

Yeah, way to short, and not nearly as intriguing as the books.
You should be glad, indeed. :)

dolorah said...

I did not think this would be worth watching. Even when the books got side tracked it wasa complex, awesome series.

George Beremov [Nebular] said...

Dolorah, it sure wasn't. I've seen worse adaptation, but this one was still mediocre at best.