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Nikolaj ArcelCâmara:
Rasmus VidebækMúsica:
Tom HolkenborgElenco:
Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Katheryn Winnick, Claudia Kim, Jackie Earle Haley, Abbey Lee, Dennis Haysbert, Nicholas Hamilton, Fran Kranz (mais)Streaming (3)
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No filme A Torre Negra de Stephen King, a original história de um dos mais conceituados autores mundiais, chega ao grande ecrã. O Pistoleiro Cavaleiro, Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), encontra-se preso numa batalha eterna com Walter O'Dim, também conhecido como o Homem de Negro (Matthew McConaughey), e decidido a impedi-lo de destruir a Torre Negra que mantém a unidade do Universo. Com o destino do mundo em jogo, o bem e o mal colidem numa derradeira batalha onde apenas Roland pode defender a Torre do Homem de Negro. (Big Picture Films)
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Se algum fã de King for ver o filme à espera de uma adaptação da sua série de livros favorita, vai ter uma experiência totalmente infernal. A Torre Negra, no entanto, não é uma adaptação, mas uma variação alternativa da primeira parte da obra de King, que os seus criadores ainda por cima tentam apresentar como uma espécie de continuação canónica desses livros (e sim, isso faz sentido, só não é o que a maioria das pessoas esperaria). O resultado dá a impressão de uma incoerente mistura de motivos retirados dos livros, entrelaçados num amálgama apressado e extremamente condensado que parece terrivelmente abreviado e incompreensível, e que mais do que tudo faz lembrar várias adaptações recentes de romances de fantasia adolescente desde The Giver até A Cidade dos Ossos. Em comparação com estes, o filme A Torre Negra pode não ser pior, mas dada a qualidade, importância e alcance do material modelo de King, a desvalorização é verdadeiramente terrível.
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Um filme de fantasia do género Equilibrium ou Cidade Misteriosa, que, apesar de ser um filme B, tem um bom elenco, uma dimensão e atmosfera de fantasia funcional e, o mais importante, trabalha com uma ideia muito interessante. Tanto Matthew como Idris encaixam nos seus personagens, o miúdo também é bom. Para mim OK.
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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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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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