As I was given the chance to sit down to watch the 1989 horror movie "Dark Tower" here in 2021, I jumped at the chance, as it was a movie that I hadn't already seen. Granted, I had never heard about the movie, nor did I know what it was about or who starred in it. But I still opted to watch the movie and give it a fair chance.
The storyline and concept of the movie wasn't actually bad. And I will go as far as to saying that the storyline was actually well enough thought through by Robert J. Avrech.
However, there were just so many things wrong with the movie. I mean, it felt like it was more of a collection of randomly shot segments and sequences that were brought together for directors Freddie Francis and Ken Wiederhorn to put together to make one movie. There was just so many things throughout the course of the movie that were left hanging, such as virtually every single scene where something disturbing or supernatural happened to someone, the scene was made intense, but then as the scene ended and the next scene started, it was as if the previous scene never took place. No one ever followed up on what had just transpired, and that lead to the movie feeling incomplete, as if there were no continuity to the movie.
This being a late 1980s movie, the movie had familiar faces like Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley and Kevin McCarthy on the cast list. The acting performances were adequate enough, albeit a bit to the less convincing side actually.
All in all, "Dark Tower" felt like an incomplete scramble of a movie. Though it was a movie that definitely had potential. My rating of this 1989 movie settles on a mere three out of ten stars. There are far, far better horror movies from that era of cinema, so you shouldn't waste much time or effort on "Dark Tower".
The storyline and concept of the movie wasn't actually bad. And I will go as far as to saying that the storyline was actually well enough thought through by Robert J. Avrech.
However, there were just so many things wrong with the movie. I mean, it felt like it was more of a collection of randomly shot segments and sequences that were brought together for directors Freddie Francis and Ken Wiederhorn to put together to make one movie. There was just so many things throughout the course of the movie that were left hanging, such as virtually every single scene where something disturbing or supernatural happened to someone, the scene was made intense, but then as the scene ended and the next scene started, it was as if the previous scene never took place. No one ever followed up on what had just transpired, and that lead to the movie feeling incomplete, as if there were no continuity to the movie.
This being a late 1980s movie, the movie had familiar faces like Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley and Kevin McCarthy on the cast list. The acting performances were adequate enough, albeit a bit to the less convincing side actually.
All in all, "Dark Tower" felt like an incomplete scramble of a movie. Though it was a movie that definitely had potential. My rating of this 1989 movie settles on a mere three out of ten stars. There are far, far better horror movies from that era of cinema, so you shouldn't waste much time or effort on "Dark Tower".