8/12/17 The Dark Tower? (Movie)

    We went and saw The Dark Tower Friday night and it was the kind of movie I like, but it felt like it needed a little more.  The movie is based around a kid who has the power to see things.  He sees a dark tower which he doesn't understand but draws it anyway.  He is drawing everything and creeping his folks out to the point they are about to send him to a "psycho camp".  He finally starts making sense of all his dreams when he sees a gunslinger in his dream and a house that looks like it might be close by.  He puts his drawing on the net and somebody gives him the location of the house in his dream, so he knows where to go.
    His parents are worried about him and they decide to involve the "psycho camp", so they call the director and she comes with a guy to pick the kid up.  He recognizes them as the creepy things with "loose" skin on their faces and starts spazzing out and the step-dad says go or I will personally throw you in their car.  He manages to escape and heads to the address of the house in his dreams.  The house has a magical portal and a demon of some kind.  It is really unclear how, but the monster attacks the kid for a minute or two but somehow the kid defeats it.  The portal sensed someone in the house and became active, the kid typed some numbers from his dream and just like that, he was transported to another world where the gunslinger lives.  He jumps and he realized his dreams all made sense.
    The gunslinger was played by Idris Elba, who without me knowing anything about the movie, I was sure it was Denzel Washington playing part two of Book of Eli.  The movie had that feeling.  I won't give away the ending, but the gunslinger and the kid join forces against a sorcerer, played by Mathew McConaughy.  The sorcerer has spent his life which I took him as the devil trying to destroy our way of life.  There is a dark tower and the sorcerer wants it knocked down, it is the job of the gunslinger to protect it, he is the last of his kind, the sorcerer has been slowly killing all the other gunslingers.  He can whisper in their ears and if he tells someone to stop breathing, they die instantly.  For some reason, the gunslinger is immune to this, he can face the sorcerer and not fear dying.  It is then a race to the end as the sorcerer wants the kid to use for his evil plans and the gunslinger is in charge of protecting him.
    If I thought it lacked something, there was no female heroine, movies like this always seem to have an interesting chick, but this movie lacked the love storyline.  Another factor to consider was that there were no other big name stars, so it was hard to see a movie without familiar faces.  Other than these two things, the movie was a pretty good summer movie.  They left it open in the end for a part 2, so there could be a sequel.