2017 · fantasy · action · sci-fi
The Dark Tower
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel1h 35m2017
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Our read: The Dark Tower (2017) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal fantasy · action · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme fantasy / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- epic-stakes
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