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The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower

2017
Fantasy
Action
1h 35m
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, 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 ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
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The Dark Tower

2017
Fantasy
Action
1h 35m
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Rated 05 Aug 2017
30
6th
The pithy reviewer in black fled from the theatre and the shitty movie ended. Akiva Goldsman forgot the face of his father as he sucked another studio exec off.
Rated 21 Nov 2017
30
18th
If you're a 14 year old boy then you may really enjoy this, otherwise probably not much. The writing was abysmal. This is perhaps Matthew McConaughey's poorest performance to date. Idris Elba had little to work with but was charismatic. The plot is contrived and lacks engagement. Most of the action does not satisfy. Overall it is disappointing and rather boring, but with some impressive special effects and music. Barely worth watching and almost entirely forgettable.
Rated 09 Oct 2017
31
9th
I haven't been this let down since the last time I ordered KFC.
Rated 23 Jan 2018
40
43rd
Known for books so thick they're better at blocking atom bomb radiation than a 50s icebox in a George Lucas film, Steven King brings us his biggest, baddest tale of all: the Dark Tower--a series of cyclopean tomes that, when lined up, can be seen from the International Space Station dwarfing the Great Wall of China. Yet, though panned by viewers and critics alike, I was surprisingly indifferent to the Hollywood re-imagining and its rampant CG. Idris is Idris, Elba is Elba and things happen.
Rated 15 Aug 2017
40
19th
From an objective standpoint, maybe The Dark Tower is just an incredibly mediocre action movie, with a slow roll, and a bad script. But as a fan of the books, this is an atrocious attempt at adapting one of the most expansive and awe-inspiring serires of all time. King's magnum opus reduced to a B-movie feeling summer blockbuster. But to be objective to people who didn't read the book, this is a little higher of a rating than I would have thought to give it.
Rated 14 Oct 2017
30
5th
Wow! There are characters in this film with the exact same names as some of the characters in a really cool series of books by Stephen King. I wonder if these guys read those books... ever.
Rated 25 Aug 2017
20
4th
Oh dear! I can't believe they thought this was a good idea. What a waste of great King books.
Rated 26 Jan 2018
35
2nd
My grandpa threw this on and wanted someone to watch it with. Man... This really didn't do anything for me. Then again, it is a 90 minute film adaption of 8 books, all of which I practically loved. I guess I shouldn't have expected much. It's fairly well paced and Elba is fine, but McConaughey is miscast and the story really isn't all intriguing, especially if you've read some of the books. A huge disappointment. Go read the books instead. They’re crazy and brilliant.
Rated 18 Sep 2017
65
23rd
King has never been very picky with who he allows to adapt his books, so long as he gets a paycheck. "The Dark Tower" is a greasy, slimy perversion of an adult dark fantasy story King wrote some thirty years ago that Hollywood jammed into the mold of "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent." It's the now tired YA rendition of special teen saves the world from magic crap. It's like watching a toddler jam the wrong letters into one of those wooden alphabet puzzles, it's just all wrong.
Rated 04 Aug 2017
30
7th
A turd that gives no one anything to be excited for. It feels so generic and rushed you wouldn't think it actually comes from source material with depth and character. Ka-tet and ka are never mentioned but shining and shine are because I guess the director had a stroke and forgot which Stephen King movie he was adapting after the first act. Jake is the lead and gets all the development (and even that's shallow) while Roland and the Man in Black are seemingly just there to vomit exposition.
Rated 05 Nov 2017
25
13th
This is not good, really really generic and the editing/pacing is terrible (and then this happened,and then this happened...). Some of this is the screen writers problem,but other parts make me question whether King is a good writer at all. I also hate characters who use poorly defined magic with no rules or restrictions,because it's lazy writing.'dris does a good job,McConaughy is phoning it in.Worst of all,I'm middle aged and don't want a kid character invented as my POV character
Rated 08 Oct 2017
10
2nd
For a movie written by people with a mental disability, this is pretty impressive. They got all the names right.
Rated 05 Aug 2017
20
7th
The Dark Tower is a boring, thinly plotted movie that consists of 90% exposition and 10% bad action scenes. A couple of good actors are wasted, a bad child actor is forced down our throats, characters are too shallow to care about, poor special effects are frequently present, and the whole thing is such a mess that it makes you wonder if a much longer cut was planned, deemed too dense or confusing, and this hacked-up 95-minute version was released in hopes of just making back some of the money.
Rated 25 Nov 2017
73
32nd
Fortunately, not being familiar with the source material spared me from having any expectations to dash. Having said that, this, though competently made, is incredibly "meh" offering a fantasy world that feels incredibly derivative and generic - the kind of genre mash-up routinely shown in the pages of 1970's Heavy Metal magazines. Not exactly the kind of thing one expects given the talent involved. Maybe King's fantasy world is now just too old for a medium that's been there & done that.
Rated 30 Dec 2017
31
8th
I went into this forcing myself to see it separately from the books. I need not have worried because this is a far cry from any epic beginning. It feels like a super expensive TV pilot. There is the loose plot of the Tower, but characters, stories, places and the sheer magnitude has been replaced by a silly showcase for a few scenes. The movie would have been far better served by being a three-hour walk through the desert to set up the scale. They should stop making these.
Rated 04 Dec 2017
55
23rd
Almost nothing here is actively bad. Just confusing, pandering, and boring. The movie felt like there was a good hour of material cut out and what was left is just the barebones to get the plot across
Rated 09 Oct 2017
35
9th
a wizard from a far out land, with powers well enormously, he simply waved his evil hand, and people fell, unconsciously. He heard of one who'd found a way to overcome this sorcery, hunted him down through night and day, and finally found him: It was me. Aghast, his waving hand went idle, he bitterly began to weep. He grasped, that since the opening title i'd been already fast asleep.
Rated 25 Nov 2017
31
8th
I've been waiting for this movie for 25 years, and in a way it's a relief that it sucks this bad. If it had been just kinda meh, I'd have to try and work out how it related to the novels. As it is, I can just write it off as a Masters Of The Universe remake by way of The Neverending Story and forget about it.
Rated 11 Sep 2017
50
33rd
I may be cutting this too much slack, since I enjoy the fact that a couple of local boys got to make an honest to god proper blockbuster, but I don't think it was all that bad. Sure it plays like a dark, humorless B-movie version of Last Action Hero, but it didn't offend me, Then again I haven't read the books, so this could be the equivalent of making a Last Action Hero-styled adaptation of Lord of The Rings for all I know.
Rated 08 Oct 2017
54
8th
So nobody learned any lessons from Eragon. Generic, rushed, and bland. The movie is a hotchpotch of exposition and edits, all to no avail. It's a rare case where the forgettableness of a movie is its greatest asset. A thorough waste of time all round.
Rated 23 Nov 2018
60
26th
Having not read any of the books in this case, I still felt like there was something missing here, including a lot of lore. And for someone called a gunslinger, toting old west Remingtons, I was hoping for more of a western feel. Overall, the film was entertaining but nothing special.
Rated 04 Nov 2017
60
47th
Elba was great as a gunslinger. McConaughey could have been better with more back story. It's seem like this could have been great.
Rated 13 Sep 2017
15
9th
bad movie
Rated 27 Oct 2017
50
19th
Generic hero's journey stuff, not what I find interesting despite the production quality.
Rated 30 Dec 2017
45
17th
To say this film is a disappointment would be a serious understatement. They made it unbearable for fans and, I imagine, perplexing for newcomers. It's a competent film on a technical level, but on a story and character level, it truly fails. Elba was decent. McConaughey sucked. There were one or two action scenes that were good, with the gun choreography and such. It's a mediocre film that I found very frustrating because the books really do deserve better.
Rated 25 Sep 2020
33
4th
Flat and dull King adaptation is an ungainly mix of THE STAND and THE SHINING, filtered through the lens of HUNGER GAMES YA dystopia; in trying to serve its multitude of genres and styles, the screenplay never satisfies any of them, casting a deadly pall of blandness across the whole production and leaving a couple of committed performers (Elba and a gleefully hammy McConaughey) hanging in the wind. Taylor is a good youthful hero, but seems out of place here.
Rated 09 Oct 2017
50
9th
An unfortunate film that could have been so much more.
Rated 10 Nov 2017
23
9th
Meh.
Rated 06 Aug 2017
65
29th
I haven't read the books so I can't come at it from that angle. As just a movie it hits enough to be fine, but is flawed. It does come across as incredibly rushed; it would have been nice to see something more fleshed out. But it's not incoherent as it's very easy to understand. It's pretty thin, more depth would have been nice, especially with Roland and The Man in Black, but it's relatively stylish and entertaining. Everyone but the child were pretty good.
Rated 18 Sep 2018
30
10th
Haven't read the books. And the script for this film does little to spark any interest in doing so. McC is super generic here, and Elba more or less acquits himself in spite of the material. Too bad. I really wanted Arcel to succeed with this adaptation and become a big shot Hollywood director.
Rated 02 Apr 2018
35
17th
I never finished the books, since like many others I got sick of them after slogging through the fourth one, so I don't know how faithful this is to the last books, because it sure didn't have a lot to do with the plot of the first four, which barely got mentioned. In this new golden age of television, I don't know whose idea it was to shove a heptalogy (yep, that's what it's called) into a single movie, but this feels like jumping into a new show at the season finale.
Rated 06 Aug 2017
50
20th
Good actors but each character was a bit bland. There was no emotional investment into the film.
Rated 15 Oct 2017
34
6th
It's shocking how bad this movie is at establishing things, considering its exclusive employment of boring clichés. By the way "the power you have to resist my magics"...? Hilarious. A dude referring to his powers as "magics" is one of the more funnier things I've heard in my life. :D
Rated 02 Jan 2018
48
13th
I really didn't get the motivation behind this movie. You have 2 generational talents at hand (Elba and McConaughey), a hyper-popular book series; go fro a trilogy or at least for a 2.5 hours movie! It felt like a long reel of "Previously in Dark Tower", no character or plot development, no attempt at pacing the story and no build-up. It was just plain bizarre. Sadly, visually it was not bad; this would have worked in a TV-series format better. Note: I read the first 3 books about 20 years ago.
Rated 05 Aug 2017
60
28th
Kind of flat, and if you're looking for humor I think there was only one small spot--and that (about the hot dog's breed), was a major blown opportunity.
Rated 23 Aug 2017
30
3rd
The Gunslinger drinking a Coca-Cola® was as unintentionally funny as it was depressing to someone who cares about the state of cinema. This movie also convinced me once and for all that children cannot act, undoing all the good that Room has done for the reputation of child actors. This is a movie that wants to give a sense of global danger, but it doesn't seem to get beyond "there's mild earthquakes in New York®!" There's so much wrong with this movie that just thinking about it makes me sad.
Rated 14 Aug 2017
4
52nd
I'm just glad they didn't have the Dad die in 9/11. Seriously tho this needs a film or two for more world building, but not as bad as people are making it out to be. It's mostly stupid fun with a solid performance by Elba, a terrible one by the kid (he kept slipping in and out of being slightly British) and Mcconaughey hamming it up in black shirt with the top two buttons undone like a street magician. I'm not going to go to bat for this movie or anything, but it's fun.
Rated 04 Jan 2019
50
34th
I'm not the biggest fan of the novels dropping the series halfway through the 3rd book. Even still this film fails to live up to King's books. Too much happens that isn't explained or given enough detail. The characters are quite bland and aren't like the same characters from the book. The whole thing seems off as it lacks the Western feel, the sense of dread, loneliness, despair, and horror that the books had going for them. The book series deserves the "Game Of Thrones" treatment.
Rated 06 Aug 2017
70
42nd
I haven't read the books; I think that's probably beneficial, in so much as you can take this just as its own movie and not worry so much about the politics of source faithfulness. People are at the same time decrying this as generic and incoherent, which are basically polar opposites in this context. It's not incoherent; it's a linear storyline that we've actually seen hundreds of times. Nobody kills it performance-wise but Elba and McConaughey are both fine. I enjoyed it, but what do I know?
Rated 30 Jan 2018
57
29th
I haven't read the book so have no personal reference point. However I'm aware of the scale of the book series and this seems to fall short of representing anything close to that. What we get here is a fairly generic action fantasy film. I felt like I was watching that Mortal Instruments movie from a few years back which probably says a lot. If I'm honest, I was intrigued at the bigger picture that is only hinted at here, so it's a shame we aren't likely to get a proper film series out of this.
Rated 13 Jan 2018
12
9th
it might seem that this movie has a very limited target audience, being clearly meant for teenage New York republicans. That's until you grasp the awfulness of McConaughey's villain, which is something everyone should experience at least once.
Rated 14 Nov 2017
34
11th
piece of shit
Rated 13 Oct 2017
1
16th
Why did they even bother!?
Rated 10 Sep 2017
50
50th
Granted, those blasted-away baddies are all dark creatures who simply disguise their true countenance with a skin mask of humanity. But frightened younger viewers may have a tough time discerning between a pile of dead men and the dead nasty creatures that hide beneath their skin.
Rated 11 Aug 2017
70
10th
it breaks my heart
Rated 19 May 2019
30
28th
Like what the serious fuck was this? This had nothing to do with the books that I read. You can barely call this an adaption. The gunslinger is supposed to be the main character not a sidekick in a teen sci-fi movie. They took something great and made into a standard, boring, clone of teenage bullshit. I should give this a zero out of spite.
Rated 17 Aug 2017
40
16th
Guess I should have checked this website before watching this. My probable score was 26 and I have no idea why the hell I paid money to watch this. Shallow characters with no improvement at all, pure acting, rushed wrapping up and many other reasons. One last word for McConaughey, please go back to True Detective and dont do movies.
Rated 09 Oct 2017
35
1st
A thoroughly watered down, designed-by-committee, soulless waste of time. King's Dark Tower universe is a baroque and vivid one, but this film retains none of its charm or heart, opting instead for a paint-by-numbers cheap blockbuster. It's not only a dreadful filmgoing experience (boring, poorly acted and visually ugly) but a lazy bastardization of the source material that is clearly made by people who don't give a shit.
Rated 10 Aug 2017
30
1st
* Despite being a bad film in itself, what a shame to bring Stephen King's magnum opus to this level of shitty.. What person in their right mind would approve this script even by itself, nothing is described, theres a confusing world that is not set.. No wonder it was a huge flop.. Stay away if you haven't read the books, run as fast as you can away from it and only watch it if it is between this and death.
Rated 20 Aug 2017
25
17th
The worst of its kind since R.I.P.D.
Rated 31 Dec 2017
30
2nd
Plus 30% for Idris Elba, who is the only enjoyable thing about this whole movie. I have read the series and understand that it would be difficult to adapt directly, but this was a seriously boring attempt nonetheless.
Rated 28 Nov 2017
62
37th
It is not even a loose adaptation of the novels, it is a fantasy movie, which barely infliuenced by Dark Tower novels.. and as a movie on it's own, it is not terrible by any mean, it's just,.. an okey fantasy/action movie..
Rated 21 Oct 2017
60
57th
It is not a bad movie. Apparently it just doesn't live up to the legacy of the books. If you let this background go, it's quite an enjoyable experience.
Rated 05 Nov 2018
26
6th
The Dark Tower is an abysmal movie for the most part. It would prove confusing for newcomers and infuriating for those familiar with the Novels. This film is entirely reliant on amazing work from a pitch perfectly cast Matthew Mcconaughey. If a Stand film ever gets made, hopefully the producers will recognize his performance as Walter O'Dim/Randall Flagg.
Rated 29 Dec 2017
45
12th
It's not exactly bad, it's laden with "so what-ness".
Rated 13 Oct 2017
35
5th
Another book ruined
Rated 26 Nov 2017
45
21st
For someone who hasn't yet touched the books, this was decent. Except the ending. That was awful.
Rated 25 Aug 2017
35
31st
I kinda enjoyed watching this movie. I thought it did a pretty decent job making the vast Dark Tower world easily accessible to uninformed audiences. For an action movie, it is rather short on action... Longest 1.5 hour movie I've watched in a long time. But it was interesting and makes me want to read the books again.
Rated 17 Mar 2018
67
19th
The big set piece action scenes weren't interesting, if the more inventive gunslinging at the very end had been everywhere it would have been more engaging (though maybe too Wanted). Overall Dark Tower concept seemed intriguing, so read the books? Did all the Shining kids on the plateau die at the end in the blue explosion? What will the fake face people do now?
Rated 01 Aug 2018
20
4th
As a fan of the books I only have one question: What the f*** did I just see?
Rated 09 Aug 2018
70
33rd
At the start, I wasn't that interested because of the super bland colour scheme (I understand that it was supposed to indicate gloom, but they went way overboard for my taste). A few minutes in though, it got deeper and thoughtful. It made me want to reach through the screen and offer advice to the suffering characters. All in all, it was a good movie, but would only recommend you watch it once (because you might be like me and binge watch the same movie over and over).
Rated 12 Jul 2018
2
14th
This movie actually made me feel a bit nostalgic - it perfectly imitates the early/mid-00s crappy B-tier fantasy-adventure feel of films like Van Helsing, Jolie Tomb Raider, Jurassic Park 3, Timeline, etc. I hadn’t even realized those movies had a signature “feel” that I kinda missed until I watched this. It sucks, though.
Rated 14 Jan 2018
30
9th
eng; [the dark tower]; ein revolverheld beschützt die erde vor den in portalen lauernden dunklen kräften und trifft auf einen erdenjungen.;
Rated 11 Mar 2018
36
10th
Snubben trodde han va cool för han hade en pistol.
Rated 10 Feb 2018
72
34th
I have not read any of the books in the series. The film had a few slow spots but also some enjoyable moments. Idris Elba is good in this movie. Overall I would recommend this film.
Rated 17 Oct 2017
74
78th
Started reading the book, but it was so boring that I had to stop before I was halfway. Took alot for me to watch this movies, especially after all the bad ratings, but I have to say that this movie is sooo underrated. By no means a fantastic film, but I was very entertained throughout the whole movie.
Rated 20 May 2018
40
57th
Awfully lacking in depth and story. Even for a supernatural fantasy as this. Heavyweights in front of the camera, nice effects, even cool at times. But the experience ends up being mediocre.
Rated 23 Aug 2017
60
9th
putting 7+3 books in one 90-minute action movie... it's impossible for the ones who didn't read the books to understand the characters and what is going on in general. it was way too oversimplified. the only good thing about this movie is Idris Elba.
Rated 22 Sep 2019
12
5th
A disaster.
Rated 21 Aug 2019
19
10th
it felt too long even though it's really short.
Rated 24 Oct 2019
40
10th
what's dis?
Rated 20 Sep 2019
55
22nd
With a good writer and Idris Elba as a dedicated lead, this could have been a mystical John Wick. Instead, the film splits three ways, following a cliche and a walking ham alongside the Gunslinger's failed potential. The fantastical world is never immersive, the plot is watery, and the characters are uninspired. Forgettable.
Rated 15 May 2020
35
3rd
A Rough Hodgepodge. Let me preface this by saying I knew nothing about its source material. To some extent, I still don't. The two usually charismatic leads are unlikeable and both feel like they are phoning it in. So, there's absolutely nothing to get behind. Even the action and the special effects seemed a little hackneyed. It feels like an incomplete film, and you just hope there was some good stuff left on the cutting room floor, otherwise, this was a waste of time.
Rated 26 Feb 2022
6
2nd
Facia. Bu Kara Kule değil, bu Kara Kule olmasa dahi iyi bir film değil. Binaenaleyh bu bir film değil.
Rated 02 Jul 2019
40
10th
No, this is not a sufficient movie. Try again. -- I liked the fast-paced beginning, but the typical audience pandering crap ruins the second half.
Rated 03 May 2021
55
18th
It felt like a young adult tv show, one where the boy would have been a misfit pretty teenager girl, and where the gunslinger would have been a pretty heroic teenager boy. I didn't read the books and I still felt like the lore was mistreated or very rushed. I give most of my points for some of the visual polish and some actors' efforts.
Rated 04 May 2021
88
36th
I'd probably have a different reaction if i'd read the books, but not knowing how the story should go, it was all new to me and an entertaining sci-fi fantasy.
Rated 01 Jan 2023
1
1st
No. Just no.
Rated 07 Jan 2018
60
36th
Kimseye kendini beğendirmesi mümkün olmayan bir film.
Rated 14 Oct 2021
30
12th
I tried multiple times over several years to get through this movie and I just couldn't do it. Ya, the production quality's high, but the story and script and editing are a complete mess. Sony has struggled so much with storytelling during the 2010s ... Hopefully the studio has figured out who keeps fucking up their movies and has kicked them out and the 2020s will be better for them.
Rated 01 Jun 2019
65
15th
what's the point of this film?
Rated 19 Nov 2017
87
29th
1544
Rated 13 Mar 2019
35
11th
Utterly uninteresting.
Rated 04 Aug 2019
29
8th
Slight and lifeless. The kid is quite good.

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