To be honest, when I started watching The Dark Tower I imagined it something like Sauron, from Lord of the Rings. I was wrong. The main plot of the movie was the defense of the Dark Tower, which is located in the center of the universe, protecting it from the darkness outside.
It's actually a really good idea, unfortunately just wasn't really well executed. We have the main villain Walter (Matthew McConaughey), and we have two "heroes", a kid, Jake (Tom Taylor), with special abilities (when compared to people of his own world) and a guardian, Roland (Idris Elba), of the Dark Tower, who has a vendetta against Walter. It's a really good idea because it gives us a new concept of god and so much could be done around it, but they had to focus on drama, for unknown reasons.
The movie itself has a decent pace, I was able to follow every part of the story, without the sense of rush or of it being unpolished. The director Nikolaj Arcel was able to provide a good character familiarization, and the kid, Tom Tayor, made an amazing job, I really enjoyed watching him on screen.
An awesome concept for a movie, although I expected to see more from the Dark Tower itself. An infrastructure protecting the whole universe, and zero focus were given to it, disappointing. The drama would be good if in less quantity, if you put a title on a movie you should live a bit by it, just saying. Magic, fight scenes and good performance from the actors made me give this 6 out of 10.
It's actually a really good idea, unfortunately just wasn't really well executed. We have the main villain Walter (Matthew McConaughey), and we have two "heroes", a kid, Jake (Tom Taylor), with special abilities (when compared to people of his own world) and a guardian, Roland (Idris Elba), of the Dark Tower, who has a vendetta against Walter. It's a really good idea because it gives us a new concept of god and so much could be done around it, but they had to focus on drama, for unknown reasons.
The movie itself has a decent pace, I was able to follow every part of the story, without the sense of rush or of it being unpolished. The director Nikolaj Arcel was able to provide a good character familiarization, and the kid, Tom Tayor, made an amazing job, I really enjoyed watching him on screen.
An awesome concept for a movie, although I expected to see more from the Dark Tower itself. An infrastructure protecting the whole universe, and zero focus were given to it, disappointing. The drama would be good if in less quantity, if you put a title on a movie you should live a bit by it, just saying. Magic, fight scenes and good performance from the actors made me give this 6 out of 10.