The Dark Tower Cinema Release Date

So much digital ink is spent on lambasting big movie studios for mining intellectual property for nothing more than general framework and name recognition.

Stephen King's eight-novel multiverse has been turned into a slice of lean-and-mean metaphysical action pulp, featuring a stylishly stoic Idris Elba and a magnetically evil Matt...

Stephen King’s fantasy saga is reincarnated as a dud in The Dark Tower.

Bad dialogue, lame plot, fine. The bigger issue: How could a film with Elba and McConaughey have so little swagger?

The Dark Tower is a thoroughly average adaptation of some truly incredible source material.

A TV pilot that belongs in a 'Middling-World'

Structurally, “The Dark Tower” never really stands erect.

After over a decade of attempts, Stephen King's self-described magnum opus comes to the big screen via director Nikolaj Arcel.

This is not a terrible movie, but it does feel terribly confused about its audience.

The Dark Tower Is a fantasy that runs like business as usual.

Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) is plagued with nightmares about the Man In Black (Matthew McConaughey) following the death of his father. He learns that his dreams are real, and tea...

The Dark Tower is a shot-to-the-heart of cinematic intrigue, as Stephen King's beloved story loses all magic in its big-screen adaptation.

It’s rare a film so convoluted manages to be so determinedly boring. Lucky for you it vanishes from the mind as soon as it ends.

The Dark Tower isn’t frightening, or even, despite some serviceable action and special effects, very interesting, except perhaps for viewers too young to know better, or for Ste...

Blame screenwriters Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Anders Thomas Jensen, and Nikolaj Arcel (who also directed) for trying too hard to cram so much of King’s original into a film ...

This isn’t just a mediocre movie — although it is most definitely that — it is a wasted opportunity to fulfill the promise of that opening line from 35 years ago.

Outside of its actors, the film is unremarkable.

About the only thing holding it together is Idris Elba, whose irrepressible magnetism and man-of-stone solidity anchors this mess but can’t redeem it.

The wait is over. After 35 years of pining, superfans of Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” book series finally have their movie.

The speed with which characters lay out the story's dire stakes prevents King's rich mythology from taking root.

Long-awaited adaptation of King's massive fantasy/Western saga finally comes to the big screen – and it's a giant dud.

This is a fantastical faceplant, and though Elba tries his hardest, what could have been the tale of an iconic gunslinger is a big miss.

The attempt to launch a franchise is ultimately a poorly edited, truncated mess.