![]() ![]() But the film simply glosses over his noble past and tragic downfall, both of which contributed to him becoming the man he is. Roland is a stuck and bloodied bull, focused only on revenge against the red cloth that is Walter. While the events unfolding in front of us are relatively easy to follow, I was continually confounded as to why anyone on screen was doing what they did. It’s from here that the problem with a lack of motivation arises. During the few times the pace does slow down for a quiet moment of conversation, we're subjected to an exposition dump for what's going to happen in the next scene instead of any sort of personal character reflection. At a scant 95 minutes, the film barrels ahead at a breakneck speed, with no time to flesh out the backstory of the world and its inhabitants before the moment we encounter them on screen. The actual storytelling in The Dark Tower is a bit all over the place. But there’s no meat on the bone of the script for arguably two of the finest actors of our time to really dig in and give us something we haven’t seen before. Likewise, McConaughey exudes a terrifying glee in playing an ancient, diabolical sorcerer with the swagger of a man who truly believes he’s about to end all existence. Elba's furrowed brow, curt delivery, and impressive handling of twin pistols effectively channel Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name. ![]() That’s not to say the performances are bad – in fact, I absolutely adore the casting of the leads. The deeply flawed and compellingly tragic characters that King created are one-dimensional in their on-screen adaptations because the motivations that give them that depth are completely lost to the wind. ![]() ![]() But what the film fails to do is capture any of the subtly, lore, and heartbreak that makes the books so remarkable. Mixing in parts of several of the books in an attempt to tell a new story, the film takes a handful of the the saga’s main elements – the battle over a magical Tower that acts as the nexus of all universes, the revenge-obsessed Gunslinger Roland (Idris Elba), the dark sorcerer Walter (Matthew McConaughey), and a psychic kid from New York City named Jake (Tom Taylor). ![]()
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