Things begin promisingly, with visions of impending doom that haunt the nightmares of a New York City kid named Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor). That’s tough to believe when looking at the finished product, a save-the-multiverse sci-fi fantasy that is, if anything, too easily digested. Recent industry gossip described a troubled shoot and early edits that were so confusing to test audiences they prompted much postproduction tinkering by producers and studio execs. That’s roughly what Danish director Nikolaj Arcel offers in The Dark Tower, weaving elements from the published books into a new premise suggested by the series’ end and paring the whole mythology down enough to fit into a mere hour and a half. Few, presumably, started out with the idea that the best way to wrangle this mountain of plot was to write a new sequel to it. For over a decade, some of Hollywood’s most successful storytellers have wanted to turn Stephen King‘s eight-book Dark Tower saga into movies.
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