This Stephen King book adaptation about a supernaturally gifted boy upon whom the continued existence of multiple worlds relies never ceases world-building so that even three-quarters of the way through, Idris Elba's Gunslinger (a Western sheriff crossed with Devil May Cry's Dante, in a good-versus-evil battle with Matthew McConnaughy's Man in Black, a cadaverous Christopher Walken impersonation) turns to the boy to utter short scene-final explanations - "[the shapeshifting monster we've just bested] was exploiting your weakness, [by appearing in the form of your father]" and "What happens in this world [i.e. beams of light from the sky and portals opening and closing] is mirrored in other worlds," or things like that - and it is funny that by film's end you still have no idea what this intensively explained world is and why anyone should care less about it ceasing to exist, though it won't cease to exist - it is a part of the Stephen King canon that will be dredged up and reimagined forevermore irrespective of whether it makes sense or is interesting or not.
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