![]() ![]() He keeps having vivid nightmares about battles between good and evil in a galaxy far, far away. The bland protagonist is Jake (Tom Taylor), a 12-year-old boy who lives in New York with his mother and his not-very-nice stepfather. If the novels are renowned for their sprawling, postmodern complexity - King himself turns up as a character - the plot of the film is all too simple. Film review: Should you see the new Spiderman film? Film review: Dunkirk is a five-star triumph Film review: Detroit is an antidote to summer blockbusters In that light, The Dark Tower is pretty ropey. But watching it in 2017, when you’ve been primed to expect the long-awaited first instalment in a megabudget saga based on a revered series of Stephen King novels, is a different matter. If you had watched it on VHS 30 years ago, during an all-night video marathon that included Masters of the Universe and The NeverEnding Story, you probably would have been happy with its icky monsters and its dimension-hopping adventures. It’s apparently set in the present day, but the rumpled fashions and the dated visual effects have a Reagan-era feel to them, and the story has a second-hand clunkiness. When the original Star Wars trilogy concluded in the 1980s, there were quite a few attempts to launch a similar family-friendly science-fiction/fantasy franchise, and The Dark Tower could be mistaken for one of them. ![]()
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