The Dark Tower
I'll just start out by saying that if you are a fan of the book series you are going to want to NOT see the movie. I spent most of my junior and senior years of high school reading the series and hoping that someday a movie would be made of them. But I knew that was going to be a daunting task. As soon as I saw who was cast for The Man in Black and Roland, I knew it wasn't going to be a serious take on the books. Sure enough I was right. I think they got the casting for Jake close, he at least resembles the character that I had built in my head from the books. Matthew and Idris were not even close. Basing it on the books, the movie gets ZERO stars.
Now if you take the movie away from the books, then it gets a little better. But because the books have so much more explanation in them as to what is going on there is a lot in the movie that just wasn't explained. What the Dark Tower is, is one of them. What is a gunslinger? Why does The Man in Black want it destroyed?
If you like Stephen King there are a few references to other books. There was a theme park called Pennywise, and Jake has "the shine". So if you can separate the movie from the books, then I would give it a 1 1/2 stars out of five.
All in all, if you paid more than $1.50 for a Redbox rental, you paid to much.