The Dark Tower

Truth be told - I just finished the first book. And there are a ton of differences. So yes, this is a huge departure from the book. But this is a fun movie. It isn’t a great movie. But it is fun. It makes no sense, but it is fun. I think you could do far worse on a rainy afternoon or even a Friday night in.

If you’ve read the book and know the amazing source material there’s just no excuse for this bad of a movie. I’m fine with taking some creative license but this move is a joke

I wanted this to be good but boy did they both it. It stunk.

Best move ever

Roland for one was modeled after Clint Eastwood so why didn’t Clint Eastwood play as Roland ? He’s an amazing actor and would’ve played Roland perfectly Jake had blonde hair in the book but it’s brown in the movie. The movie starts in the middle of The Wasteland book the third book , why? What’s with the future looking portals? And Roland Datta and Eddie are the ones that pulled Jake through the portal. And by this time Jake had died twice already. It all just doesn’t make sense and reading the books and then seeing this movie made me very frustrated along with a lot of my family members that have also read the series. It’s a slap in the face really. if they made this into a show that played through each book as it was written it would’ve been amazing. I’m just disappointed in the way it turned out. Please consider the readers and the books when you try to make a movie like this. This movie seemed really rushed in a way that it looked like they were just trying to turn the whole series into one movie and by doing that it doesn’t work well. Hopefully you guys actually take these reviews into consideration.

one of my favorite sci-fi movies, well written and entertaining. very different than the books but the movie is quite unique

You can't expect the entire Dark Tower series to fit into anything less that a whole Lord of The Rings style stack of 4 hour disks. It's obviously going to have to be different, and to cut the size down so much, its really going to have to be rewritten... That being said, this is a good movie sharing some of the concepts. It was better than I expected. I thought it was great. I still want to see a proper 38 disk epic production box set true to the books.

The Man in Black creeps me out more than the crimson king. Killing him off probably means there’s not going to be any sequel. Good introduction to the book though!!

I’m not sure who this movie is for- definitely not the fans of the books. It is simply the WORST adaptation of an epic story that you could possibly imagine. DO NOT watch this movie.

Solid movie, great characters with just enough backstory to move the drama into the action. The young man's relationship with his parents was enough but not over done. His relationship with the gunslinger builds appropriately. I would have loved this as a longer movie, so that the could delve further into the background of the other verse and it's history. Overall a very different movie.