
11-year-old Jake Chambers experiences visions involving a Man in Black who seeks to destroy a Tower and bring ruin to the Universe while a Gunslinger opposes him. However, Jake's mother, stepfather and psychiatrists dismiss these as dreams resulting from the trauma of his father's death the previous year. At his apartment home in New York City, a group of workers from an alleged psychiatric facility offer to rehabilitate Jake; recognizing them from his visions as monsters wea... (Full plot summary below)
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11-year-old Jake Chambers experiences visions involving a Man in Black who seeks to destroy a Tower and bring ruin to the Universe while a Gunslinger opposes him. However, Jake's mother, stepfather and psychiatrists dismiss these as dreams resulting from the trauma of his father's death the previous year. At his apartment home in New York City, a group of workers from an alleged psychiatric facility offer to rehabilitate Jake; recognizing them from his visions as monsters wearing human skin, he flees from the workers who give chase. Jake tracks down an abandoned house from one of his visions where he discovers a high-tech portal that leads to a post-apocalyptic world called Mid-World..
Leave your thoughts about The Dark Tower.
| Showbiz JunkiesRebecca MurrayNeither Idris Elba nor Matthew McConaughey can save this flat adaptation from being utterly forgettable. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThe essence of the story is good versus evil. It is not a novel idea, but it works. There are some good action scenes in it, and the actors are effective. As a popcorn film, it doesn't have to be meaningful, just entertaining, and it is. |
| Lainey GossipSarah MarrsShot for approximately seven dollars, The Dark Tower is a muddy, unattractive picture with terribly choreographed and filmed action. |
| Mad About Movies PodcastKent GarrisonI didn't think it was possible to make a Stephen King story seem unimaginative until now. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsThe best sci-fi Western since Cowboys & Aliens! |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Josh TerryThe Dark Tower is a fun fantasy that evokes a 1980s adventure vibe, and feels like a close cousin to the popular Netflix series Stranger Things. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFrom the impure perspective of someone who hasn't read King's series, The Dark Tower isn't half-bad. Faint praise, but this movie will take all it can get. |
| Seattle TimesSoren AndersonIn the vast canon of King-derived movies, "Tower" belongs in the upper ranks. |
| Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiThis campy, stripped-down summary of or sequel to Stephen King's cross-dimensional fantasy western is a late-summer bummer. |
| MaraMovies.comMara ReinsteinBetween his GQ appearance and drawling psychobabble, Matthew McConaughey plays the villain as if he's filming an extended version of a Lincoln commercial. |