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Nikolaj ArcelPhotographie:
Rasmus VidebækMusique:
Tom HolkenborgActeurs·trices:
Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Katheryn Winnick, Claudia Kim, Jackie Earle Haley, Abbey Lee, Dennis Haysbert, Nicholas Hamilton (plus)VOD (4)
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Notre monde n'est pas le seul... Le dernier Pistolero, Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), est condamné à livrer une éternelle bataille contre Walter O'Dim, alias l'Homme en noir (Matthew McConaughey), qu'il doit à tout prix empêcher de détruire la Tour sombre, clé de voûte de la cohésion de l'univers. Le destin de tous les mondes est en jeu, le bien et le mal vont s'affronter dans l'ultime combat, car Roland est le seul à pouvoir défendre la Tour contre l'Homme en noir... (Sony Pictures Releasing France)
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Critiques (13)
Un bijou fantastique dans la veine d'Equilibrium ou de Dark City, qui ont certes une odeur de série B, mais sont bien castés, ont une dimension fantastique fonctionnelle et une atmosphère et surtout travaillent autour d'une idée sacrément intéressante. Les personnages conviennent à Matthew et Idris, le gamin est aussi bon. Pour moi, c'est OK.
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Si un fan de King se rend au cinéma en espérant voir une adaptation de sa série de livres préférée, il sera confronté à une expérience véritablement infernale. Cependant, La Tour sombre n'est pas une adaptation, mais une variation alternative autour du premier livre de l'opus de King, que ses créateurs tentent en outre de présenter comme une sorte de suite canonique de ces livres (ce qui a en quelque sorte du sens, mais c'est quelque chose de bien différent de ce à quoi la plupart des gens s'attendent). Le résultat donne l'impression d'un patchwork incohérent de motifs tirés des livres, tissé dans un désordre précipité et extrêmement dense, qui paraît terriblement sommaire et incompréhensible, et qui rappelle surtout les récentes adaptations de romans fantastiques pour adolescents, de The Giver à The Mortal Instruments : La cité des Ténèbres. Comparé à ces films, La Tour sombre n'est pas forcément pire, mais compte tenu de la qualité, de l'importance et de l'étendue de l'œuvre originale de King, c'est une véritable dévalorisation.
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It wasn’t as terrible as all the negative, almost hysterical responses had made me fear. Overall, it’s rather ordinary, unambitious and unremarkable. The casting is good, even the main boy, who didn’t annoy me, which in this kind of role it’s always a success. The special effects are pretty lame, most of the scenes are covered in darkness (for instance, the fight with the demon in the woods, that one was so dark that I thought the projector had broken down), and the entire film feels terribly rushed, like a fragment of a bigger whole. This is perhaps understandable, given the length of the book it’s based on, but, as a viewer who hasn’t read it, I’d appreciate the adaptation not making it so awfully clear. I don’t see the reason to make much of a fuss, but rather to sigh over the unfulfilled potential.
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I never thought an hour and a half could drag on like this. The Dark Tower has its moments, both Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba fit their roles excellently and Nikolaj Arcel is confident in the action scenes, but unfortunately it's all pretty banal, ordinary and boring. Plot-wise, The Dark Tower never surprises with anything, which doesn't matter when it pretends to be an action B-movie. Unfortunately, however, it more often than not tries to pretend it's a grand fantasy full of fascinating worlds, other dimensions, terrifying monsters and mysterious creatures. And given that the ventures outside our reality end up in a desert with one theme park, one village, and a few completely uninteresting side characters, it comes across as a bit funny. The Dark Tower looks like a pilot for a more ambitious fantasy series that would like to show its world to viewers in the episodes and seasons to come. Unfortunately, it shows so little the first time around that I have no desire to be there the next time (though there probably won't be a next time anyway). It's not a disaster, but there really isn't much of the downright interesting stuff to send you to the cinema for.
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King's seven-part saga is unique in the way it has evolved in genre and literary terms over more than two decades, during which Stephen has managed to write dozens of other books, confess his love of Westerns and pop culture, and come to terms with his own drug past. It's a fascinating dose of the truly epic and bizarre, but the year I spent reading it was nourishing for me, literarily speaking, in the best sense of the word. The series offers about two dozen themes that could be turned into a proper blockbuster. But what they did here is in every way the worst possible option. This The Dark Tower took a few random motifs that seemed apt, but they are put together in a completely nonsensical whole. It lacks any dramatic arc. Jumping between locations, he pounds on the editing room door, desperately searching for the rest of the filmstrip. At best the characters have no chance to stand out, at worst they are annoying. Elba relies on a charisma that will engross even those for whom Roland Deschain is still a blue-eyed blond, but McConaughey played perhaps the most idiotic role in a decade. Taylor's Jake Chambers is a tragedy. This is a creative failure on all fronts that someone tried to salvage at the last minute by selling it as an action B-movie. Even decent special effects can't save the fact that before the first scene, someone should have vigorously yelled stop and turned it over to the cable people, who would have made four rich seasons of ten episodes each out of it.
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