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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)
(plus)Critiques (13)
When you look at the sagas being made and how much care is given to them, it's sad to see how little care was given to The Dark Tower. I'd rather the film not be made than be made in this form. King's saga is a rich well of inspiration for me beyond all measure, and his best work deserved a much better adaptation.
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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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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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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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I haven't read the book, but I believe that it is definitely more interesting. The film feels very rushed in places and what can we say, cramming seven books into ninety minutes is impossible, a longer running time would have been better. I have no complaints about the acting, Idris Elba is a proper hero and Matthew McConaughey as the bad guy is excellent – it's a wonder that A-list actors are in such a B-movie. The action is decent, nicely shot, only the scene with the demons was too dark. There’s almost no atmosphere, so I wouldn't describe the film as horror even though it is labelled as such here, but for one viewing I think it's decent, inoffensive fun. 65%
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Mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, its fine that they filmed it, on the other they filmed it so freely that it sometimes really got on my nerves, and also the way they eat meals in one location after another, killing any potentially productive storylines. Elba is really good, McConaughey is super, several cuts above the rest. His version of Flagg is cynical dark and you can see that he really enjoys himself. King’s essence of evil is presented just right. What isn’t ok is character motivation. Roland’s quest is the tower, not revenge. The point of the book is gone. They just left the gravy. Why was the one-volume Hobbit made into three long movies, while the eight-part Tower get just one short one. It’s makeshift, like a series pilot, but it made me want to read the book again. Perhaps they’ll filmed right someday.
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Not great, not terrible, rather an average film that only very theoretically could have been better. I didn't expect that The Dark Tower could be filmed better than in an average way. For those unfamiliar with the book (or in this case rather “drafts") will probably be more conciliatory. Connoisseurs may like the introduction with Jake, and then various allusions to Mid-World (talking raccoons in a commercial, Walter's Glass Balls, 19-19...) and to King's other works (The Shining, It, Christine, The Shawshank Redemption, 1408, Salem's Lot...); however, the film won't offer them much more than that. Perhaps just the surprise that, God knows why, the screenwriters changed the function of the Tower or the Rays. Idris Elba is almost uninteresting as Roland and has almost no motivation, the actor playing Jake is also bland, and Matthew McConaughey plays Walter like Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate, but the directing or the script do not help him too much, the spark of atmosphere only shines every now and then, and there no fear emanating from it. The final battle wants to be flashy, but is instead rather awkward. I'm not offended, but if the film hadn't been made, it would not have mattered.
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It's a mystery to me why they didn't do a better job with this. The premise calls for mature serious fantasy by Peter Jackson, not just a maturely told children's tale where everything is too simply outlined and resolved. I certainly wouldn't call it a dud – for that the film is under control directorially and there are a number of nicely and stylishly edited scenes; but it should have taken a different, darker and more varied route. Elba is a proper good guy, McConaughey as the bad guy the best thing about the whole film. I want an expensive and similarly cast TV series.
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This movie has an incredible capacity for unwatchability. Everything in it is so colorless and dry that connecting to it is a superhuman task even for Shaolin masters of empathy who eat Lasse Hallström marathons for breakfast. Until the last action scene, there is not a single shot more interestingly constructed, character presented, or piece of information spoken. Nor is the eventual madness monumental enough to snap you out of an unpleasant apathy, comparable only to being handcuffed somewhere while someone tries to beat you for hours with the plastic hammer from the Little Builder set. In the end, it pokes the little horns of videogame action, where the fight with the Man in Black in particular is reminiscent of boss fights in videogames, aided in particular by frequent over-the-shoulder shots and a small operating space where the hero can only hide behind columns to dodge the increasing attacks of his opponent, using the interactive environment as the key to defeating him. Still, I can’t help but ask: is that enough? Whatever. Enough is just a word.
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I've read King's Dark Tower series a few times which is why I’m somewhat baffled. Why is the film called The Dark Tower when it is clearly a very poor adaptation of the first part of the series – “The Gunslinger”? Why is Roland played by a black man? If they make a film adaptation of “The Drawing of the Three”, how will Detta Walker be able to call him a honky? Things sure can’t be resolved by making Detta white, because then she would have to use the forbidden n-word and a wave of race riots would sweep the US. A huge yet predictable disappointment.
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I haven't read the book, so I’m not worried how faithfully the creators stuck to it. Actually, I don't really care, as I was really quite taken by this action-adventure fantasy directed by Nikolaj Arcel anyhow. The whole move is pretty suspenseful, has a decent pace and a suitably dark atmosphere. I liked the cast too. Not only Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, but also the young talent Tom Taylor all played their roles with dignity and were a joy to watch. (70%)
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