From time to time in "The Dark Tower," you get a look at what may have been: the might-have-been story aspiration, the might-have-been pop folklore, the might-have-been type collection. Based — freely appears to be by and large excessively liberal a word — on the Stephen King arrangement, the motion picture is an unappealing hash of moviemaking platitudes that, after much hurrying and blathering, decays into a bland shoot'em-up. About the main thing holding it together is Idris Elba, whose irrepressible attraction and man-of-stone strength grapples this chaos yet can't recover it. 

Mr. Elba plays the extraordinary Roland, whose name proposes the Arthurian legend with knights et cetera. Onscreen, however, Roland essentially focuses, shoots and fills in as an overqualified sitter for Jake (Tom Taylor), a 14-year-old with psychic forces (he "sparkles" à la "The Shining") who lives without further ado on what Roland calls Keystone Earth. Roland, by differentiate, lives in Mid-World, a confused domain of foggy woods, advanced boogeymen, realistic implications, slavering gestures to Mr. Lord's voluminous oeuvre and some land developments that may make you pointlessly streak on pictures from John Ford westerns. (The motion picture was mostly shot in the Cederberg Mountains in South Africa.) 

For reasons that rise in interpretive shouts, Jake and Roland go between Mid-World and the impressively less fascinating Keystone Earth. Likewise moving is Walter, a.k.a. the man in dark (Matthew McConaughey), an amusingly licentious supervillain who, with fatigued hand waves and suggesting whispers, overflows about like a Vegas relax reptile — with an indication of the Wicked Witch of the West snap – reigning over intensely furnished, confront evolving, blood-craving snarlers (Jackie Earle Haley, et. al). Mr. McConaughey, bested by a guilefully masterminded stun of dark hair and blazing some tanned chest that makes you need to whip out the gold chains, has really formed into a Zen ace of scum. 

The title alludes to a strangely charm, sky-piercingly tall tower that by one means or another holds both the universe's different universes and its tremendous dangers under control. Walter needs to devastate the dull tower; Roland means to ensure it. Jake, who tends to look as confounded as the gathering of people may feel, doesn't yet have a mission, however giving this twerp a reason — a sort of small saint's adventure ("Surrender, Jake"!) — is by all accounts the endgame. It's a default arrangement, and peruses like a cop-out. All things considered, if Stephen King gives you a mind boggling fiction that transforms thick tropes into a thick folklore with its own dialect and heavyweight legends like Roland, wouldn't you keep running with at any rate some of it? 

The "Dim Tower" arrangement can be followed to Mr. Ruler's adoration for, among different motivations, J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" books and additionally Sergio Leone's excellent 1966 film "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," which I assume clarifies the duster Roland wears and an unfilled gesture to spaghetti westerns. Along these lines, there's that. For the most part, there are thickened activity scenes, firearm fetishism, terrible composition and unpredictable rhythms that propose a more extended variant may once have existed. The executive, Nikolaj Arcel, shares screenwriting acknowledge and fault for Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner and Anders Thomas Jensen; whatever they thought they were doing here stays as baffling as Walter's hair item.