The Dark Tower: Review

• Ah, Sony.......You've done it again.

• Plot Summary: "Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), the last Gunslinger, is locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim (Matthew McConaughey), also known as the Man in Black. The Gunslinger must prevent the Man in Black from toppling the Dark Tower, the key that holds the universe together. With the fate of worlds at stake, two men collide in the ultimate battle between good and evil."

• I have never read a single Stephen King novel. I have no attachment to the source material. If I know that a book is about to be adapted into a movie, I don't want to read the book. I don't want to be one of those people who read the book and was disappointed by the movie. Well, I didn't read the book and I thought this movie was very boring.

• I'm a big fan of Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. I thought their characters had interesting concepts but not very much depth. The Man in Black and The Gunslinger are hero and villain, and I felt no connection or a past. The Man in Black keeps referring to The Gunslinger as "Old friend" and I have no idea why. You can't make me feel a connection between the hero and the villain by only having the villain call the hero "Old friend." I didn't feel any reason why these two characters had to fight other than he's the bad guy and he's the good guy and if the good guy doesn't win then the destruction over the world BLAH BLAH BLAH. Both of the actors do a good job in this movie with what they're given. (which isn't much). All the other actors are either okay or bad. The script is very boring. The editing was very rough in some scenes. The CGI was very rough. I was not a fan of Junkie XL's score. I LOVED his score for Mad Max: Fury Road, but I was not a fan of his score for this. I thought it was just begging for attention.

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• I think the only thing this movie has going for it is interesting concepts. Which the only person who deserves credit for that is Stephen King. I loved the concept of The Gunslingers. That's just flat out awesome. But the movie doesn't make it fun. Guns are essential to the Gunslinger, and this movie doesn't make the gun fighting fun. The way the gun fight scenes are filmed is boring. They use the same boring gun sound effect every time. And you rarely see any damage from his shots. If you have a character named The Gunslinger, make the gun action awesome. There was one gun fight scene that was okay.

• The action is pretty much just people shooting at each other a couple times in a field. Then some people talk and walk to a place. Then people shoot at each other in a hallway. And that's pretty much all that happens. It's not a big adventure like it definitely could have been. It's such an uneventful movie. The battle ends in the most boring and dumb way possible. One fight scene between The Gunslinger and The Man in Black actually made me giggle because it was so stupid.

• We spend like 40 boring minutes in the world The Gunslinger is from and then we come back to earth for the finale. We don't want to watch our world. We know our world. We want to go to another world and stay there. The audience doesn't care as much about watching The Gunslinger learn what a hot dog is as we love seeing a new world. IT'S SIMPLE SONY! This movie could have been Inception meets Lord of the Rings. My grade for The Dark Tower is a C