Writer/Director Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower suffers
from too many screenwriters, including Arcel, Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinker and
Anders Thomas Jensen. The result is a convoluted
story that is distasteful for young viewers even though the principal character
is an adolescent admirably played by Tom Taylor.
Adolescent Jake Chambers (Taylor) has psychic visions
from which he creates drawings that make everyone think he is crazy and should
be sent to a school for the mentally impaired.
Jake escapes
through a portal to Mid-World and learns from Roland, the Last Gunslinger
(Idris Elba), that The Dark Man (Matthew McConaughey) is having gifted children
kidnapped and is draining the energy of their brains to try and bring down the
Dark Tower that protects several parallel universes from the Darkness beyond
them.
The film is not as bad as some of the other science
fiction drivel that’s been out this year, but you have to be a real fan to
enjoy it. I give The Dark Tower a 3 out of
5.
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