An average movie

Even though this movie had been a major critical and commercial flop, for some reasons, I still wanted to check it out though. First of all, I have to admit I haven’t read any of the books in The Dark Tower series and, to be honest, I have actually never really been a huge fan of Stephen King’s work. However, the idea of King writing a story over 8 books for about 30 years for some reason did sound fascinating to me and the damned thing definitely had some potential. Unfortunately, they obviously completely messed up this adaptation though. The first bewildering thing, at least to me, was the fact that, from this huge epic saga, they delivered a movie lasting only 90 mins. I mean, this story was supposed to be some kind of combination of ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ with ‘The Lord of the Rings’, there is a good reason that these movies run almost of even above 3 hours and I seriously think that it was the main issue with this flick. Of course, you could argue that it would have been further developed with a possible sequel but can you imagine ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ lasting only 90 mins? Anyway, there is no doubt that the damned thing turned out to be really half-baked but, at least, the casting was pretty neat with Matthew McConaughey playing the Man in Black and Idris Elba playing the Gunslinger. To conclude, my rating was probably way too generous for this movie but I just loved this concept and, only therefore, the damned thing got a free extra points for me, even if it didn’t actually really deserve it.