The dark tower
The saga of "The Black Tower", with its 8 books, has engaged Stephen King for over 30 years. The audacious project to derive a film from this vast material, however, in a duration of less than 2 hours, making it more essential and accessible cinematically speaking, while appreciable, however, has shown all its limitations and imperfections. The film is unfortunately hurried, schematic and superficial, sometimes chaotic and confusing, mechanical and predictable. The work lacks style, and above all authentic inspiration and fascination to excite or capture the viewer's interest. And maybe even King's fans will disappoint. The actors are saved, but at a formal-technical level it could have been more cured or in any case dared more. The evocative power of the mythology of "The Black Tower" has remained in the original novels.