Review of The Dark Tower (2017) by Lee B — 17 Jan 2018
This film is one that clearly was hacked down dramatically in order to fit a 90 minute runtime, while also setting up for a sequel. What this film needed was... well, to not be a film. This is clearly something that HBO or Netflix should've bought and turned into a TV series.
With 9 books, that's 9 seasons of TV right there and we could actually explore this world properly, give every moment the gravitas it clearly deserves, maybe even hire a better actor to play the villain.
If they do that, maybe there'll be a good adaptation of this in the future. Instead, right now, we're stuck with half a movie that's got half a good cast and half an idea what it want's to be.
It's not awful, it's just disappointing.
This review of The Dark Tower (2017) was written by Lee B on 17 Jan 2018.
The Dark Tower has generally received mixed reviews.
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