Reviews

How can a film of 1 hour 35 minutes do a great piece of work proper justice? The answer, of course, is that it can't. Stephen King's incredible story about Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger and last in the line of Arthur Eld, is a complicated one and needs more than an hour and a half to tell. So much has been missed out. The doors on the beach, Eddie, Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker/Susannah Dean, Oy, Lud, Blaine the Train, the back story that was the catalyst (at least in my opinion) that made me feel for Roland... all this and more is sadly missing from this film... What we were served was something that was lacking a soul. In the opening sequence there is a rose and a turtle and the name Tet corporation is shown, as if it was part of the movie creators/producers, this got me all excited and made me hope that the movie would be true to the books, thankee- sai for good movie! Alas! It was not. I think that for someone who has never read the books, the movie will be considered a good enough adventure, however for someone, like myself who has been a fan of the Dark Tower books for 30 years, it was a disappointment. I only hope that the TV series, if it is made, will be much better and stay true to the books. Perhaps Peter Jackson should have been involved in the making of the movie. I'm sure he would have made at least one movie for each book and given us a chance to get to know Roland and his Ka-Tet. Please don't judge Stephen King and his great books by this movie, buy the books and read them instead of paying good money to see this movie.