Review of The Dark Tower (2017) by Madviking — 20 Aug 2017

Adapting a book as complex as The Dark tower series, into a film, is no easy task, and some things just have to be changed in order of making it work. If this was a stand-alone story without any ties to any books, it would be decent, not perfect, but not bad.

Because it's not a bad film, the acting isn't bad though there's a severe lack of depth to the cast, Roland stands out as confused, Jake even more so and Walter just pure evil. It's one dimensional, but it works.

But I've also read the books, and was expecting so much more, especially since King had talked so much about not wanting this adapted to film, because he care too much about it. The film basically takes the first book and the last book, makes a mash-up and calls it a day.

They've completely skipped a LOT that could have been an epic series of films, and they could easily have made 5 2-hour films out of the series and still made good of it. This film needs to be seen as a stand-alone, forget it has anything to do with "The dark tower" book series, read the books, see the film, but forget that they have any connections.