11-year-old Jake Chambers experiences visions involving a Man in Black who seeks to destroy a Tower and bring ruin to the Universe while a Gunslinger opposes him. However, Jake’s mother, stepfather and psychiatrists dismiss these as dreams resulting from the trauma of his father’s death the previous year. At his apartment home in New York City, a group of workers from an alleged psychiatric facility offer to rehabilitate Jake; recognizing them from his visions as monsters wearing human skin, he flees from the workers who give chase. Jake tracks down an abandoned house from one of his visions where he discovers a high-tech portal that leads to a post-apocalyptic world called Mid-World..
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I’ve never read the books so was able to judge the movie on its own merits and I found it entertaining. The acting was good, never dull and the fight scenes did not last so long to the point of boredom as they so often do. Of course, I’m a sucker for Idris Elba and loved him in this role.
Read the books instead. This has nothing to do with them.