12/29/2023 0 Comments Free for apple instal The Dark TowerOnce Jake finds his way into Roland’s realm, the gunslinger reluctantly takes the boy under his wing and they travel through assorted alternate dimensions, with Walter on their tail, because Jake is the key to a vague apocalyptic scheme.Īttempts by Elba and McConaughey to, respectively, lend gravity and menace are choked off by their roles’ simplistic characterisations and, in Elba’s case, some very awkward fish-out-of-water gags when Roland hits Manhattan. Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) is a creative 11-year-old New Yorker who’s been doing drawings of his recurring visions of a parallel universe in which a gunslinger, Roland (Idris Elba), pursues a demonic, black-clad sorcerer named Walter (Matthew McConaughey). The rich narrative tapestry that King wove over the course of his novels has been reduced to a plot (credited to four screenwriters, including director Nikolaj Arcel) that could have been written on a napkin over lunch. On screen, ‘The Dark Tower’ serves up a generic, half-baked scenario no different to a slew of YA films in which young, wide-eyed protagonists discover their connections to a hidden fantastical world. That suspicion is now confirmed by this weak supernatural stew, which eliminates much of the author’s imaginative myth-making. With the eight-book ‘Dark Tower’ series, Stephen King created his own ‘Lord of the Rings’: an epic, sprawling dark-fantasy saga that for years seemed unfilmable.
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