A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy t... Read allA boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
- Dr. Hotchkiss
- (as José Zuñiga)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Dark Tower is a series of eight books which span an entire connected universe which links several other books and stories by Stephen King, including Bag of Bones, The Talisman, Black House, The Stand, Everything's Eventual, From a Buick 8, Hearts in Atlantis, Insomnia, The Eyes of the Dragon, and 'Salem's Lot, with minor references to IT, The Mist, and The Shining.
- GoofsRoland starts out with a wounded right arm, using his left to shoot and to pay the doctor with a coin in the hospital, but on the bus he takes pills and drinks a Coke with his right arm while holding his left arm limp.
- Quotes
Roland Deschain: I do not aim with my hand. He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand. He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
- Crazy creditsRight at the very end of the credits, you hear the ominous whistle.
- SoundtracksHow Little We Know
Written by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer
Performed by The Nick Perito Orchestra (as Nick Perito Orchestra)
Courtesy of Muzak Archives LLC
I could rant and rave about the total lack of Eddie, Susannah, or Oy. I could complain about the total change of the dynamic between the last of the line of Eld and the boy who said "Go, then. There are other worlds than these." I could mention the skipping of ALL the books and picking up at the beginning of the end (which isn't an end at all). All of that and more.
But I'd be wasting my breath.
Instead, I'll ignore the source material - just like the screenwriters did, apparently - and say the action scenes were rushed, the acting was flatter than flat, and the amount of deus ex machina displayed in every possible scene was breathtakingly arrogant. Can't think of a good way to resolve a conflict? Easy-peasy, a gateway or two with strobe lights!
I don't expect anyone to take seven books' worth of storyline and pack it into a single movie. But to completely ignore all source material and just cobble something unrelated together is unforgivable, especially with a story as fan-driven and notoriously complex as this one.
King fans are never going to settle for a halfway attempt when it comes to his opus - and this didn't even try to get halfway. The vague hints (a talking racoon commercial instead of Oy? Really?) and nods ("thankee-sai") aren't going to appease us, they're going to enrage us. And by the way, they're totally lost on anyone who isn't enraged.
As criminal as it is to slap the DT label on this thing and then tell people that it's just another iteration of the story, it is equally criminal to put Idris in a role for which he is a total mismatch; equally criminal to put McConn in one where he's limited to slithery evil one-liners and big grins. Both of these men have SO much more potential than is shown here, and the lack of story kept them on painfully short leashes.
Watching this was like lighting the fuse on an M-80 and tossing it in a garbage can... only to have it fizzle out. There's a wee bang, a puff of acrid smoke, and that's it. No glorious explosions and light shows. Just... disappointment and the sharp smell of defeat, and a hole in your wallet where your money used to be.
- cryfenril-38465
- Apr 23, 2018
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Tòa Tháp Bóng Đêm
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $60,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $50,701,325
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $19,153,698
- Aug 6, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $113,231,078
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
Contribute to this page
![Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, and Tom Taylor in The Dark Tower (2017)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU3MjUwMzQ3MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjcwNjkxMjI@._V1_QL75_UX90_CR0,0,90,133_.jpg)