Review of Dark Tower

Dark Tower (1987)
5/10
Hammy and hamfisted
25 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Watched this back in the early 90s when I would watch ANYTHING with Jenny Agutter in. This film, I remember, never made much sense to me, so I thought I'd check it out again to see if it made sense to me now I'm older. The plot is very basic (as others have pointed out on here) and I knew who was doing the killings and what was going on within the first third of the movie. But still parts of the film didn't make sense. We see the husbands reflection in a tabletop when Michael Moriarty is seemingly about to Jenny Agutter on it. Michael has premonitions, but this scene never happens in the film in real time. There's also the worst bit of continuity where a guy it talking and pointing, followed by a shot behind him where he suddenly has a glass in his hand. It's rubbish basically, but I found humour in it. Jenny Agutter is doing her American voice and is very bad in this, I've never liked any film with Michael Moriarty in and he seems like he is on quaaludes, or has some form of mental retardation. Theodore Bickle was okay though, constantly talking to himself - and they all had some funny, nonsensical lines of dialogue. The zombie looks ridiculous, but the bit where he suddenly snaps into life and grabs Agutter is the best bit! All in all, I'm glad I watched it again for all it's dreadfulness.
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