The Dark Tower-Kids Movie Review

Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), a pre-teen boy, has very bad dreams at night. They’re so vivid and seem so real that when he wakes up he draws images of what he’s seen and puts them on a cork board in his room. He wants to figure out what these nightly terrors mean. His dreams are about a man in black who uses kids to try to destroy the world. There’s a Gunslinger who tries to stop him. Jake eventually realizes that his dreams are real; he meets the Gunslinger, Roland (Idris Elba), and he learns about the Dark Tower that protects the universe from monsters. He also learns that Walter (Matthew McConaughey), also known as the Man in Black, hopes to destroy the tower. The battle between good and evil begins as Jake and Roland try to save the world from the evil Man in Black. The Dark Tower is based on Stephen King’s Dark Tower book series.

Rating: 3 out of 5 popcorn buckets
Release Date: October 31, 2017
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 14+
Sexual Content: None
Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive
Crude or Profane Language: Mild
Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild
Will Kids Like It?  No

Talking Points:

Sexual Content: None

Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive

• There’s a lot of  guns and shooting. A boy learns to shoot a gun.
• Boys fight at school; punching and hitting one another.
• Character’s are shown stabbing with knives and hitting with heavy objects..
• A  chunk of glass goes through a character’s hand. We see a lot of blood.
• There are explosions and earthquakes.
• We see drawings of scary and disturbing images.

Crude or Profane Language: Mild

• We hear “sh-t,” and “h–l.”

Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild

• A character takes a handful of painkillers.

Will Kids Like It?  No

Overall The Dark Tower is a dark sci/fi film. Parents need to be aware of the excessive violence throughout the film.

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