Reviews for “The Dark Tower,” the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novels, are in — and critics say the foundation should’ve never been built.
Slamming it as a “small, sad pile of rubble” and a “fantastical faceplant,” critics gave the blockbuster a cumulative score of 21 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
“The 95-minute culmination of years-long efforts to bring ‘The Dark Tower’ to the big screen is a complete disaster, a limp, barely coherent shell of a movie,” wrote TheWrap’s film critic Dan Callahan.
For most critics, the lone highlight seems to be Idris Elba, who “oozes a winning sense of stoic gravitas as Roland Deschain,” according to USA TODAY.