That was an excellent one.

A lot of fun.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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.

If you've never read "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King, then there's nothing to see here... move on and save yourself a couple of hours wasted. If you ARE a fan, move away FASTER. STINKYPOO!!!!!! I like Idris, but he is horrifically miscast as Roland. Turns out it matters little, as the script failed to capture an iota of the size and majesty of the story itself. Would not even qualify as a "Reader's Digest" version.

How the heck can Hollywood take a great series of books and take the first book and make it into a 1 hour and 35 minute movie. Even Stephen King said the movie should have been a HBO mini series not a short movie that made no sense. Unless you read the books which I have the characters made no sense. You can't expect these actors to try and help you through a movie. The script was bad the movie had a direction before the movie started. Get to the end as fast as we can.

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.