The bad point - the strange idea to use a serie for a 90 minutes film saying, in essence, nothing. The good points - Idris Elba effort to save his role and the locations. And, sure, the good intentions of director. Short, invitation to read the first novel.

I can't believe scriptwriters and whomever else responsible for this travesty could not do better with the stellar material available from Mr. King. If you've read the books, just know that other than character names, you will find no semblance much to the book plots. Not a spoiler; just truth. If you've not read the books, like the rest of my family, it is still a bad movie. Family members didn't get it at all. There was zero character development. Not even sure what was going on half the time. My kid was asking me, why is that happening, you read the books?! I had zero to answer. Basically had no idea myself what was supposed to be the point. What a lousy film. Was so boring even with all the noise of guns and stuff blowing up. I actually started to doze off about halfway through, out of lack of interest. I highly regret the loss of better spent time rather than watching this.

Good acting and an interesting premise that flows well and doesn't really spoonfeed. It's not deep and you can kinda see where it's going, but it gets there nicely.It could use a few more scenes, though, to explain the world a little (like, what's the bad guy's deal?) and some more gunslinger in New York moments. But overall, good movie. Pity it bombed.

Granted, I have not read the books from Stephen King, but I am familiar with them as I used to work in a bookstore. I was looking forward to watching the adaptation of the novels here, and was expecting quite the unique experience."The Dark Tower" had a good story, albeit somewhat shallow in comparison to what I have heard about the novels from friends who read them.They had a good cast, whom did indeed put on great acting performances in bringing out their characters on the screen.One of the major things that kept "The Dark Tower" afloat for me was some really nice CGI and special effects throughout the entire movie.Wonderful connection to "IT" (Pennywise) and good tie-in with The Shine ability from "The Shining", if you are familiar with those from other works of Stephen King.All in all, then "The Dark Tower" was a tad above mediocre end result that could have been so much more. It just felt shallow and superficial, and it was definitely like they were in a rush to get through it. Which was a real shame, because it was painstakingly obvious throughout the entire movie, and it definitely served as an anchor holding it back.