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PG13 (SINGAPORE)
2017
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The Dark Tower
Positive Reviews
23
Negative reviews
144
Average Rating
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2.0
But its ultimately done in by professionalism; its a movie that doesnt seem to love itself, sidestepping its innate strangeness. (
Av Club
2.8
The film version is the sort of self defeating project thats bound to be slammed by fans more than it deserves.
Av Club
1.8
A tight story is one thing, but a 95 minute feature that is unable to give even the slightest inkling that its based on a grand scale epic masterpiece ..
Indie Wire
2.0
Just a hodgepodge of mainstream gunplay that would have been more enjoyable given actual optical clarity.
We Got This Covered
1.5
Taylor brings a breath of life to this otherwise moribund mega movie, but little else can be said in favor of this misappropriation of Kings magical a ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Even if youre unfamiliar with those adventures, youll still find much of The Dark Tower awfully familiarwhen youre not being thrown off by the haphaza ..
Time Out
2.0
Based on the Stephen King novels, this ungainly mixture of Western, fantasy, sci fi, action, horror and fish out of water comedy never finds its rhyth ..
Screen Daily
1.5
Based on the Stephen King novels, this ungainly mixture of Western, fantasy, sci fi, action, horror and fish out of water comedy never finds its rhyth ..
Screen Daily
3.0
The Dark Tower keeps you engaged but fails to go beyond offering you some generic escapism.
ETimes (TOI)
3.0
The Dark Tower keeps you engaged but fails to go beyond offering you some generic escapism.
ETimes (TOI)
3.0
The Dark Tower keeps you engaged but fails to go beyond offering you some generic escapism.
ETimes (TOI)
2.0
Instead, it simply exists, eager to be overlooked and forgotten.Its a shame that this adaptation didnt have the funding or the vision to be something ..
Collider
1.5
Unfortunately, Taylor isnt a strong enough actor to play the central character.
Collider
2.0
The thing about King is that his passion is always palpable, even when his material is second or third hand, whereas no one here seems to be having an ..
Vulture
1.9
In the end, John Wick is a far better gunslinger than the freaking gunslinger is.
Paste Magazine
1.9
Honestly, I kind of wish it was.As is, its more forgettable than loathsome, the kind of movie that occasionally rubs salt in your wounds by reminding ..
Rogerebert
2.5
A thoroughly average adaptation of some truly incredible source material.
IGN
3.0
The Dark Tower is a mediocre, overshort movie, but it has done what nothing else has done it has made me want to read the books that inspired it.
E Film Critic
1.0
Hell, if this story had been transformed into something completely screw loose, the end result might have been dreadful but at least it might have bee ..
E Film Critic
2.0
But its a sad waste, not a wilful one a misfire you wish was better in virtually every shot.
Telegraph
1.5
If that doesnt sound misguided and convoluted to you, more power to you.
The Young Folks
3.0
Most importantly, its a visual spectacle of action and fantasy that leaves the audience wanting more.
Cinema Blend
2.0
With a cheap look and bargain basement action scenes (with too dark lighting covering up dodgy CGI), no one seems to have had much faith in this as a ..
JoBlo
2.5
On its own, The Dark Tower is a decent action fantasy adventure that makes for an enjoyable experience for casual moviegoers.
Screen Rant
1.9
Instead, its been crammed into a 96 minute movie, and though Im generally not one to complain about a movie being too short, this adaptation seems to ..
Philly
2.2
There have been worse adaptations of books by King, but this long awaited one is almost guaranteed to disappoint his many fans while failing to bowl o ..
One Guys Opinion
2.0
But Im all out of good things now.Outside of its actors, the film is unremarkable.
Village Voice
1.3
A thriller with tepid thrills, a horror movie with bland frights, a generic fantasy quest story in which we mope along with joyless, heartless charact ..
Rogers Movie Nation
2.5
Just dont try too hard to understand what happened, its just not worth the effort.
Sover
1.8
10 1 4 / 10 Development on The Dark Tower has been brewing for a very long time.
Blu Ray
2.5
The movie hints and teases at something special, but it only provides the routine, generic story about a battle between good and evil.
Mark Reviews Movies
1.3
While most high profile franchise starters try to do too much their first time out, this things guilty of too little ambition.
Usa Today
1.0
The mind boggles, briefly, but will otherwise be mostly catatonic.
The Times
3.5
There is nothing profound about it, but as a popcorn film, it doesnt have to be meaningful, just entertaining, and it is.
Lariat
2.5
The stakes seem low even though they are not.But Elbas stoic Gunslinger is aces, McConaughey is a sonorous, low key ham, and the kid is fine.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
At 95 minutes its just a messy sci fi horror fantasy salad; Kings elements become mere cliches.
News Review
2.0
The Dark Tower favours flashy spectacle and relentless exposition over characterisation as it hastens to a depressingly open ended denouement.
Radio Times
2.0
Its the latter in regard to the film ending up as a disappointment to diehard fans, although if one has read the books, at least some of whats offered ..
Screen It
1.0
The ending leaves the way open for sequels but, like the ill fated Philip Pullman adaptation The Golden Compass, this is one potential franchise that ..
Independent
1.3
Instead, we get a 95 minute movie that plays like a mash up of Kings mythic themes with no connective tissue.Its as if director Nikolaj Arcel and co s ..
Rolling Stone
1.0
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
1.0
The 95 minute culmination of years long efforts to bring The Dark Tower to the big screen is a complete disaster, a limp, barely coherent shell of a m ..
The Wrap
1.3
Not everyone will be willing to sit through all of this simply because someone bothered to create it.
News Day
2.5
The best parts of the movie are its opening sequences never a good sign.
Cs Monitor
1.5
Every so often, Stephen King likes to dump out a few bookshelves worth of influences into one eager, shambling mess of an epic.His multi novel Dark To ..
Film Journal
2.0
It is an abstract monolith, a metaphor that could mean anything from finding God to finding the purpose of life.But all of these themes are lost in th ..
Hindustan Times
2.0
King fans were troubled to learn that the film adaptation would only be 95 minutes long; for most of us, thatll be more than plenty.
The Guardian
2.0
Its rare that a film so convoluted manages to be so determinedly boring.
The Guardian
1.5
All that churn left the film disjointed.At times you feel like you are watching someone else watch a movie, so disconnected is the experience.
Az Central
1.9
Let this be said for the movie: It gives us what the title promises.
Star Tribune
2.2
The movie around him is sadly pointless, weirdly forgettable despite a slipstream story mashing fantasy and science fiction and Brooklyn.
Ew
1.5
The story is a journey at heart, but the movie keeps rushing to the next destination.
Slate
2.0
Arcel nods to Kings vast canon of work throughout the film and though his inspirations, such as Tolkiens Lord of the Rings, are heavily referenced thi ..
Flim List
2.0
And while Nikolaj Arcels film isnt a complete disaster, its still not strong enough to justify its existence.
Film Inquiry
2.0
Elba is genuinely great as the tormented Roland, but the film does its best to suffocate him under a mountain of plot heavy nonsense.
Empire
2.0
Susan Grangers review of The Dark Tower (Columbia PicturesSony) If you read Stephen Kings sprawling eight novel saga, which reportedly took more than ..
Susang Ranger
1.0
Noisy, junky, and without any kind of mood or rhythm, The Dark Tower connects somewhat to Kings Shining universe, but this is as far from Kubrick as a ..
Common Sense Media
2.0
I probably shouldnt be laughing at such deadly powers, but the execution truly is amusing.
Flickering Myth
2.0
The arrival of the Apocalypse is a subject often broached upon in Hollywood movies.Some filmmakers show it as the coming of aliens, others portray it ..
Book My Show
2.0
It could use more magic, more dread, a more staggering sense of wonder. Its wholly inoffensive, but its unmemorable too. This is a fantasy that runs l ..
Time
1.3
The condensed narrative keeps the film from getting lost in the lugubrious structure of most franchise starters, but the speed with which characters l ..
Slant Magazine
1.5
The Dark Tower movie review: Matthew McConaughey whispers or gestures to get inconveniences such as people out of the way.
The New Indian Express
1.5
Even Walter, in one of his rare generous moods, acknowledges this tall, dark and handsome man.
The New Indian Express
1.5
About the only thing holding it together is Idris Elba, whose irrepressible magnetism and man of stone solidity anchors this mess but cant redeem it.
The New York Times
2.0
The Danish director has described this as both an introduction and a sequel to Kings magnum opus.
Express
2.0
New York youngster Jake (Tom Taylor) has been plagued by nightmare visions.
Express
2.8
The result is a mostly entertaining piece of fantasy pulp that is a victim of trying to do too much and too little at the same time.
The Film Stage
2.5
The movie makes me finally want to test drive one of the Dark Tower novels, if only to see what King himself was able to bring to the party. Maybe tha ..
Boston Globe
2.8
What I came out with is a sci fi western about good versus evil with lots of shootouts and a lot of slick CGI.
Reeling Reviews
1.8
What I came out with is a sci fi western about good versus evil with lots of shootouts and a lot of slick CGI.
Reeling Reviews
1.0
This final product reminds me a lot of the GOP healthcare plan: Youve had all this time and THIS is what you come up with.I can already picture John M ..
Uproxx
2.0
The Dark Tower is not the worst film of the summer. Its not even the worst film of the week. But it does feel like the most misconceived release of th ..
The Irish Times
2.0
One of the great things about Stephen Kings epic Dark Tower fantasy novel series is the way the author mashes up genres, throwing together familiar el ..
Las Vegas Weekly
2.5
The story is generic with little of the mind bending, quirky twists that made the books enjoyable.
ReelViews
2.0
Heaven knows, the books offer more invention than could fit in one feature film, but in their effort to introduce newcomers to this world, the filmmak ..
Hollywood Reporter
2.0
Its a film that feels claustrophobic and oddly contained when it shouldve felt sweeping and epic.
Birth Movies Death
1.5
The Matrix inspired gun shots and slow mo looks repetitive and doesnt make an impact.
Deccan Chronicle
2.0
If so, it is every inch as hilarious as each of the scripts very occasional stabs at wit.
Standard
1.0
Whatever its problems, its trim, 95 minute tale of dimension hopping warriors is hardly the impenetrable, undisciplined mess we might have expected af ..
Los Angeles Times
1.9
Sadly, the result of all this anguish and effort appears to have gone for not, this initial foray into Kings supernatural world hardly worth the wait.
Movie Freak
2.0
It all fuses into a glittering trash pile of deja vu action pulp.
Variety
2.0
This is unfortunately the predicament of The Dark Tower a sour and disappointing action fantasy that simply fails to entertain.
Firstpost
2.0
Thats not a great prescription for a would be summer blockbuster, but more an endorsement to watch when it hits cable.
Cnn
1.9
Take away the end credits and the movie lasts a mere eighty eight minutes.
Aisle Seat
3.1
As surface level entertainment, The Dark Tower is halfway decent.
Forbes
2.5
The more you concentrate on looking for a coherent story from The Dark Tower, the more remote your chances are of ever finding one.
Herald Sun
2.2
As it stands, The Dark Tower is falling, but all hope is not lost.Kings universe is insane in often fascinating ways.
Consequence Of Sound
2.5
Filmmaker Dave McCarys efforts at cultivating a feel good vibe grow more and more desperate as time progresses, but the movie is, for the most part, n ..
Reel Film
1.9
The four credited screenwriters seem to have spent most of their time simply ripping up the books.Casual King fans may be amused at the nudge nudge in ..
Nj
3.5
But if you go in expecting a fun fantasy with heart and a few scares, you may find plenty to love as well.
Vox
2.0
Of course not every film should need moments of light relief, and there is room for serious, dour blockbusters of this nature, and the narrative here ..
Hey U Guys
1.3
A dumb fantasy movie adapted from Stephen Kings most derivative novel series.
The Star
1.5
Elbas deadpan delivery of jokes provides a few laughs to what otherwise is a tonally flat disaster.
The Play List
2.5
Its a failure, but how big of one is entirely predicated on your level of investment in the material.If you dont know anything about it, take it from ..
Film Freak Central
2.0
The movie may be a house on fire, but Idris Elba is a picture of calm gravitas, chomping on a cigar while it all burns down.
Now Toronto
1.5
But good acting alone cannot save a film that is wrong at the conceptual level.
Scroll
3.8
The Dark Tower occasionally suffers from some stiff acting, and some fans may feel that McConaughey and Elba are underused, but its total product is e ..
Deseret News
2.0
Its not Stephen Kings THE DARK TOWER, but it is a perfectly fine YA adventure. Make of that what you will.
Film School Rejects
2.0
Its strange, majestic and occasionally infuriating, but it makes an unforgettable impact.
Film Ink
3.5
Idris Elba and Tom Taylor have a wonderful dynamic together, and the gunslinging action scenes are appropriately cool. But it all feels strangely... c ..
Ner Dist
2.5
The former star of The Wire must despair of finding a genuinely great film role.
The Age
2.5
The Dark Tower is neither the best nor the worst of the King adaptations, but it seems a safe bet that its the box office and not psychic children whi ..
Maki At The Movies
2.5
... shrink(s) a woolly mammoth plot to lapdog size, defying anyone considering Kings literary opus unfilmable. Those people are right...
Tamp A Bay
1.3
Youll silently have a lot of questions until you realize the credits are rolling because this epic is a puny 95 minutes.Granted, its a challenge for f ..
New York Post
3.0
While The Dark Tower may not be the epic blockbuster it was touted as, it is certainly an enjoyable, action packed fantasy starring two very fine acto ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
1.0
In this day and age of technological advancement and mind bending cinematic possibilities, even The Dark Towers special effects are instantly forgetta ..
Star Burst Magazine
1.0
With its epic scope, colourful characters and bonkers plotting, the stuff necessary for a truly gripping film is undeniably all there.
Lw Lies
2.5
Theres a surfeit of Stephen King references that are fun to identify, and more than one impactful set piece, but its clear that the mythic qualities o ..
Nz Herald
1.0
Reduced to a generic cartoon team up mystic dimension hopping action movie that barely functions, marred by terrible supporting performances, The Dark ..
Flicks
2.0
The Arthurian undertones of the Mid World are intriguing and its feudal structure might have been compellingly cinematic.
Independent Ie
2.0
Its a moribund first half hour and the film never really recovers or gains any momentum.Even McConaughey turning up as the demonic Man in Black cant g ..
Stuff
2.0
But little Tom Taylor is a cipher, a bland, boring protagonist that cant carry a proposed epic like this.
Film Racket
2.0
But in doing so, The Dark Tower loses all of its intended epic heft.
Vanity Fair
2.0
Dark Towers best moments come when it stops trying so hard and allows itself a sense of humour.
The Sun
1.0
Idris Elba, I am pleased to report, rises above this miasma.Dashing and charismatic in a world weary way.
Killer Movie Reviews
2.5
Perhaps the makers of the proposed series would have a better luck fingers crossed
FilmFare
2.5
1 of 5 View Caption Matthew McConaughey plays the Man in Black, the villain of The Dark Tower, a fantasy action thriller based on Stephen Kings ..
Sltrib
2.0
The film adaptation started in 2007, and has a troubled production history thats seen it move through a number of studios and producers.
Scmp
1.5
This Dark Tower adaptation abandons the nuance and gravity of its source material and all too often lacks any trace of a beating heart.
Ign
2.8
You can see what this film is trying to be but its not all that interesting.
The Film Pie
1.3
The cinematography has a washed out, dull tone.The special effects are mediocre.
Chicago Sun Times
2.5
Director Nikolaj Arcels version of Kings magnum opus is slight, a skin n bones adaptation that teases a greater mythology but depicts little of it.
Punch Drunk Critics
2.5
The visuals manage to serve the story as do the cast, but there is a pervasive feeling that were missing something.
Movie Crypt
2.5
If a wider audience likes this film, then the sequel will be more detailed and hardcore.
Movie Web
1.5
Instead of the sprawling, pleasantly familiar series starter that should have been, the movie, along with its villain, bleeds indifference, checking i ..
Cinemix Tape
2.5
La La Land has long preferred logic and mechanisms which can be directly communicated and understood by audiences everywhere.Trying to make the impres ..
ComingSoon
2.5
Idris Elba as Gunslinger is out to save the world along with this movie adaptation of the Stephen King book series. He is the one strong reason fans s ..
Dead Line
2.0
.King has inspired plenty of terrible movies before; we guesstimate the number at around 40 to 50.
Metro New York
2.0
The Dark Tower does its best to introduce us to a fantasy world created by novelist Stephen King but it would have been better off as a mini series ra ..
Solzy At The Movies
2.5
But how can that be in a visual effects action movie that doesnt really have one
Daily Herald
2.0
The Dark Tower is an appealingly mediocre, enjoyable but largely forgettable movie.
Crave Online
2.0
A movie is designed to entertain and invoke an emotional reaction.
Polygon
2.0
But the struggle to appeal to both halves of its presumed audience has left the film conflicted and erratic, a puzzling mix of highly specific details ..
The Verge
2.0
For a film thats taken over a decade to get made, its amazing the final product could feel so rushed.
Metro
1.5
Aside from this, its not darkness and fire as much as numbness and ire over a summer movie thats lacking in spectacle, emotion or thrills.
Cbr
1.0
At every narrative way station, it merely sketches its environment and has bland characters spout exposition that lay out the rules and regulations go ..
The Daily Beast
2.0
The action builds towards what is supposed to be an epic showdown between Roland and Walter.
What So
2.5
The one saving grace is that all three leads are interesting; they feel like theyre in three different movies, but thats no matter.
Alternate Ending
2.0
Its a truly rare thing to come out of a summer blockbuster wishing it were longer, but in its rush to get down to the bare essentials, The Dark Tower ..
Scifi Now
2.0
Its a minor miracle this movie isnt an utter mess, but plot wise, it really isnt.Its just that nothing makes sense.
Lainey Gossip
1.9
It may be High Noon in the land of The Dark Tower, but its a low ebb for viewers expecting anything of substance.
Clclt
2.0
His career deserves better than this cinematic meltdown of a movie.
Black Girl Nerds
1.0
The series may yet have life in it, but itll take a monumental effort to bring it back from where it currently sits.
Concrete Play Ground
1.5
The audience can tell the actors had the most fun shooting these scenes, but they only make the ludicrousness of the films internal logic that much mo ..
National Post
1.0
Over the past decade or more, however, the large US based studios have been content to ignore the possibilities of this advantage, instead considering ..
Bfi
2.0
Its no big surprise that Elbas performance is easily the best part of The Dark Tower.
Original Cin
3.0
The path to their inevitable showdown is slick and fun to watch its hard not to like looking at Elba and McConaughey but the sequel establishing endin ..
The Australian
2.5
And now this universe is coming to a theater near you.Is The Dark Tower an acceptable or even faithful cinematic adaptation of Kings sprawling literar ..
News18
3.0
Synopsis Sinister sorcerer Walter ODim (Matthew McConaughey) is determined to destroy the Dark Tower, a soaring pinnacle that holds the universe toget ..
Sky
1.0
Your guess is as good as mine.At its best, the film explores the Gunslingers creed I do not kill with my gun.
National Review
2.5
Making this movie revolve around young Jake instead of the Gunslinger turns it into a young adult flick instead of what King meant his series to be a ..
The New Paper
3.0
It can be easily dismissed as a movie that will disappoint Kings fans; it can just as easily be embraced as a movie kids will like.
Toronto Sun
2.0
...there is no way that Stephen Kings eight novel multiverse is as simplistically written as this film adaptation. Credited to four screenwriters, The ..
Daily Film Fix
2.0
Elba is, as usual, a powerful force on the screen who deserves better.
Ap News
3.1
That tale fused fantasy, western tropes and even King Arthur lore into one epic yarn.
Hollywood Into To
1.5
Granted, you dont need a blockbuster budget to create thrilling action.
Mash Able
1.5
Void of character and severely underdeveloped, its nothing short of a disappointing mess that will most almost certainly displease fans that have been ..
Cairo 360
1.3
Though this movie is based on up to eight novels, theres enough story here only for a very good one hour, one off TV drama.
Sf Chronicle
2.0
Now, after what can easily be seen as a decade of development hell, The Dark Tower is finally here.And very, very flawed.
Film Ireland
1.5
Pity them, for the final product is cheap, shoddy, and bland to a confounding degree.
Dark Horizons
2.0
The Dark Towers action is rudimentary, its effects average and its skeletonized story simplistic and dull.
Toledo Blade
1.0
The Dark Tower is another entry into the muddy, dimly lit action canon (a genre forged by the Underworld series), but the occasional brush with Mid Wo ..
Thril List
2.2
Performances are mediocre at best.McConaughey phones it in as one note Walter.
Movie Chambers
2.0
In the navel of the universe is an immense tower shooting out good vibes to the denizens therein.Outside the spell it casts are a menagerie of Lovecra ..
Metro Active
1.3
But there is nothing in the middle no compelling journey, no memorable characters.
Heral
2.0
But not even the growling intensity of Elbas righteous cowboy is enough to carry The Dark Tower over the line.
News
1.9
If you understand these terms youll be amused; if not, theyll wash over you.
Free Beacon
2.0
Despite lots of huffing and puffing on the part of the filmmakers, The Dark Tower seems far too easy to shrug off.
Denerstein Unleashed Blog ..
3.8
Stephen Kings sprawling eight novel magnum opus has been distilled down to a compact 93 minute movie thats an amalgam of horror, fantasy and Western m ..
Seattle Times
2.5
Nothing great, nothing awful, just fine.The story is rather simple and formulaic.
Dread Central
0.0
But worst of all about The Dark Tower is that its got way too much story, and endless exposition, in too short a time period.It spends so much time ex ..
Splice Today
2.6
It is a wonderful mess, and if you havent read it I highly encourage you to dive in.
Flixist
2.0
Elba is a tough but twinkle eyed hero, McConaughey enjoys himself as a reptilian villain, and much of the film gets its goodies v baddies job done wit ..
Bbc
2.5
It is a watchable summer blockbuster that evaporates quickly, and entertains occasionally.
Buffalo News
2.0
Production wise, the series is less ambitious than HBOs Westwood but it digs into many of the same questions about want makes us human and has a more ..
Daily News
2.5
Ordinary rather than extraordinary and average rather than epic, the much anticipated The Dark Tower feature film suffers from a case of the mehs.
Showbiz Junkies
2.5
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Enfil Me
2.0
There arent any fun special effects or imaginative sci fi weapons to be seen, which means the action is little more than generic shoot outs.
Bangkok Post
2.5
Rather, it feels slight and inconsequential, despite the apparently existence altering stakes involved.
Student Edge
2.5
Its a great line, simultaneously sparse and evocative, and a good deal more accomplished than what director Nikolaj Arcel and his Akiva Goldsman led c ..
Houston Press
2.0
Even fans of the books will be confused by whats not apparently an adaptation so much as a sequel to the books.That Elba and McConaughey are terrific ..
Metro News
2.5
The Dark Tower itself is explained on an opening title card: it exists at the center of the universe, protecting it from darkness.
M Live
3.8
The final productions pretty skittish, yet engaging enough to establish the franchise and leave you eagerly anticipating a sequel.
Baret News Wire
2.0
With an ending that shouts out for a sequel, more films will come if this weak primer makes enough cash.
Movie Reviews Cinemaclips
1.5
It is sinful that with a mountain of material to work with, Arcels script never amounts to much more than a hill of acceptable action element beans.
My States Man
2.0
Elba sells it with the timing and by playing Roland painfully straight, and in those moments, you can see the movie The Dark Tower could have been pro ..
Buzz Feed
1.0
The long awaited Dark Tower movie is a po faced, incoherent and frequently ludicrous mess.
I News
1.0
Its hard to fault Elba or McConaughey for their performances.Whatever they were sold on to accomplish in this movie likely never panned out.
Business Insider
1.0
This movie just made every wrong decision about what it wanted to be when it grew up.
Movie City News
1.0
Last minute rewrites and reshoots couldnt salvage this doomed ship.Let us pray that it will soon be forgotten.
Film International
3.1
Whether audiences ever get to see it will decide whether The Dark Tower is either a decent standalone feature, or simply the deliciously suggestive st ..
The Fright File
2.0
With lowered expectations, it can even be called watchable.But it is never epic and that is what is so heartbreaking.
Franks Reel Reviews
3.1
The Dark Tower is Kings ultimate roller coaster twisting and stomach clenching and terrifying but, above all, fun.If only this version was as thrillin ..
The Globe And Mail
2.0
Fascinating only because of its flaccidness both compared to its source material and in its rudimentary blockbuster construction The Dark Tower stirs ..
Film Pulse
2.5
But it feels like it tells a complete story, which is depressingly rare.
Spliced Personality
1.0
Directed by Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel, whose latest work was the period drama A Royal Affair in 2012, the film is rushed, flat, devoid of any rea ..
S Fist
2.0
But good acting alone cannot save a film that is wrong at the conceptual level.
The Reel Scroll
2.0
Unfortunately, whats on screen is really just thoroughly mediocre, with its most potentially interesting elements set aside in favor of a synergistic ..
Portland Mercury
2.5
This is the frame of a narrative a greatest hits piece, as it were.
Cut Print Film
1.5
What a shame, given that Elba was overdue for a lead performance in a blockbuster.He brings gravitas to the role, but a great actor cant put a shine o ..
Mara Movies
2.0
More a boring let down than a truly craptastic cheesefest that at least creates a drinking game.
Weekend Special Co Za
1.5
There is no journey here, apart from the disjointed location hopping of the second act.In the chequered history of development hell this franchise has ..
Shotgun Cinema
1.9
Devotees of the books often speculated that it would be impossible to make a movie out of the series, and this film acts as miserable proof of that th ..
Kgun9
2.5
The films epic source material and extended origin story were always going to cast a long shadow over the final product, but the film should stand on ..
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