 I do not shoot with my hand, I shoot with my mind, kill with my heart. The Dark Tower. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Alright guys, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. Thank you very much for tuning in for my opinion slash review of Sony's The Dark Tower, starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elbaugh. I've been looking forward to this one. Before we get into the review, do your boy a favor, do behave your favor. Go ahead and click that subscribe button, click the bell so you can be notified when I make uploads. Help me reach my first milestone of 1000 subscribers and also click the like button. Let's see if I can get this video to have 1000 likes. Alright, now that we got that out of the way, we can get into the movie. The Dark Tower, I'm sure you've heard of it before, this movie is being adapted from a book that was written by Stephen King a while ago. I believe there are eight books in the series and I have not read any of them and I may because I heard they were pretty good and the premise just seems kinda cool. But about the movie, like my expectations, when I first saw the trailer, I was like okay that seems pretty cool, I like Idris Elbaugh, I like Matthew McConaughey. But what the Dark Tower is about is okay we have Earth, but Earth is not the only plane of existence. You have other planes of existence, you have other dimensions and it's all being kinda held together by this dark tower that is in the other, I forgot the name, I think because Earth is called Keystone Earth and then this other Earth is called, I don't want to say Middle Earth, I forgot what it was called or whatever, I'm pretty sure if you read the book you know, so go ahead and let me know in the comment section below. But that's where, so we are on Keystone Earth, that's where the world that we know where you're watching this video. But over here we got the man in the black or whatever, over here we got the man in the black played by Matthew McConaughey, he's just a typical evil guy, Satan you know, a Satan worshiper or some type of, what do they call him in the film, a, what did Roland call Matthew McConaughey, a sorcerer, a sorcerer or whatever. He's one of those guys that just want to rule over everything and destroy the dark tower because of the dark, the dark tower is the pillar of it all, of all the worlds. Apparently, that's how I took it and if that comes crawling down then this is going to be chaos and this dimension is going to be spilling over this dimension and demons are going to be coming in and eating people for no reason and eating babies and eating eyeballs and stuff like that and that's bad that can't happen. So Roland is a gunslinger, you know, he'd be with all the guns, doing all this action and it looked badass. That was one thing to turn me on. I was like, this dude is throwing chambers of bullets in the air and catching them and just, dude, I was like, whoa, this is something like, you know, updated Matrix times two type stuff, you know what I'm saying? So that's what got me excited or whatever. And yeah, so I was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really happy about that. But the main thing about the plot is, is that, well, do I want to, I want to set it about the plot? Well, yeah, well, no, I won't because I don't want to spoil it for you. But we got this boy that we have in these visions because he has a power. He has a great telekinesis abilities and Matthew McConaughey's character, the man in black, what he wants to do is get all these powerful children to help him enhance his weapon to destroy the dark tower. So that is the premise of the movie. Now, the first thing I liked about the movie is everything that I just explained. There was a lot of world building, a lot of universe building. That was fun. I was enjoying all of that. There was no, no epilogue in the beginning or whatever. Talking about thousands of years ago, not that that's a problem because they do that in the epilogue. I'm in a prologue when they say that, you know, I don't mind those. But there wasn't anything like that. They just kind of just go, the movie just kind of goes along and you get to know the world as you're getting some of everything else just like any other movie. So I do like that. I love Matthew McConaughey's the villain. He was a great villain, the man in black. He was dark. He was sinister. He was truly evil. Something that I did not like about about his characters, his abilities is it never really seemed to me like he had a challenge. I mean, he can just go up to anybody and say whatever he wanted for the most part and then they would be in at his will. And yes, that is a cool power to have. It's like, damn, this dude is so powerful. How are we going to stop him no matter what we do? He can say whatever he wants and that happens, you know, that's fine. But at the same time, I want there to be some type of balance, you know, because if the antagonist is that powerful, you're kind of just like, OK, you've been fighting this war for how long now and you can do this and you haven't won yet seem like you should have won this centuries ago. But that's just a small great. As far as he was concerned, like I said, you know, he's looked great as the gunslinger and there aren't that many gunslingers left. Everything about him and the gunplay was this fire. I loved it. It was real, real cool, really enjoyed all that very nice choreograph dipping back on the other side, something that I did not like. What's the visual effects? The visual effects in this movie was trash. I'll be honest with you. I'm not going to this movie did not suck at all. But at the same time, this movie was not just freaking fantastic. You have to see it. It was a great entertainment film. And while that being said, really the only thing I could complain about were two things is one, the visual effects were not good. And the other thing I complain about, I'll talk to you a little bit later about that. I'm just going to wait on that. But there was this one scene to where like a floor in the room in the house came alive or something. I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then later on, he was he just was trying to fight some red creature. I didn't know what it was. It just seemed like a big red blob. And then another part where the effects came through is like it was some type of bad, warm, bad creature with just deformed in every way. I couldn't even see what it was. It was it was very hard to make out, very hard to depict. But, you know, it was hard to make out. The movie is very short. And only it comes in like right at 90 minutes or like 95 minutes or like an hour and 34 hour and 35 minutes, which is fine. We don't always need two and a half hour blockbusters or whatever. So that's fine. You know, I do appreciate it being short in nature. Just kind of get straight to the point, you know, I got evil versus good, good, trying to stop the evil guys to take over the world. So I love Matthew McConaughey. I love it. Just Elba. I love the world building in this movie. That was a lot of fun. There seems to be so much more to this world that this film did not touch on, which is fine because that just wants more sequels if this film is successful. But we'll we'll just have to wait and see because right now I don't think it's doing too well on Rotten Tomatoes. But at the same time, that is not the end all be all, you know, as far as how well a film is going to do. Oh, something else that I want to mention is like I said, I like the world building. I like Matthew McConaughey. I like it just I like the main lead, the little boy or whatever. You know, he was smart. You know, he he I liked him. He was fast. He was quick. And there's a reason why I'm sending it because he did have to escape a number of times. And I liked him. He was, you know, a pretty good lead or whatever. So movie is very enjoyable. I'm really into action, adventure, you know, science fiction type things, fantasy and whatnot. And this is a great example of that. Well, no, there is another thing I will complain about. This is being distributed and produced by Sony Pictures. And, you know, there I didn't read the book. But as I was watching the movie, I could tell that there was a few key moments and a few character moments to where I could tell that they stood out in the book. Like, you know, this is chapter seven and they have to fight the demon monsters. And I'm just making up a generic name or whatever. I bet that the demon monsters like popped out, you know, significantly in the book. And, you know, for you to remember them well in this and any other instance like that, they were just in the movie and kind of just there like a checkbox, you know what I'm saying? Like when like there are seriously, there are a group of characters that, you know, we had to defend ourselves from. And let's just call them the ninja demons. And they were cool. I just wish the fan were to focus on them more instead of just brushing over them. It seemed like all the cool elements in the book, you know, all the fantasy stuff that they just kind of inserted that in the movie and didn't really flesh it out, really didn't give it a spotlight. And it's probably what made the book good, you know, I don't know, but I just kind of had that feeling as I was watching the movie. Still enjoyable. Just didn't have that pop, you know, that I was wanting. The other thing about this movie I want to complain about is just, you know, the world is at stake here. No, not the world, the universe is. No, not even the universe, the universe and multiple dimensions to my understanding is a stake. So when it all comes down to when I'll come down to the end and there's the conclusion, the final showdown where, you know, the good guys fighting the final boss, you know, stays 10 or whatever. It was a very well choreographed scene, but at the same time, it was a bit underwhelming because I'm like, OK, wow, it's it. That's over, you know, like the battle for all of this land is just going to come down to these certain individuals going at it. I mean, you know, where's the armies? You know, I'm just throwing it out there. But I did, you know, I don't want to say I expected more, but I would have appreciated more because my expectations were low, but I would have appreciated the more, you know, like, but it was cool. There was a scene in this movie where Matthew McConaughey and each other are fighting back. I'm coming clipping this whole thing. Sorry if the audio sucks, but there's a, you know, scene in the trailers where they're fighting. And that scene was cool and I liked it and I liked the way it was resolved. But, you know, to be trying to take over the whole world or the universe of all these dimensions or whatnot, the film just could have gave you a little bit more. If I had to rate the dark tower out of a seven out of 10, I. My I just gave you my rating. If I had to rate the dark tower out of a one out of 10, I would give it a seven out of 10. Yes, a seven out of 10. But guys, that's just my opinion. Have you seen the dark tower yet? Do you want to see it? What do you think? Do you agree with me? Do you disagree with me? Did I turn you on? Did I turn you off? Let me know in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going to keep it flowing. If you liked this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up. And if you don't like the video, that's fine. 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