‘The Dark Tower’ is a mangled mess of mythology

For someone not versed in Stephen King’s self-described “magnum opus,” the movie adaptation of King’s “The Dark Tower” is a hopeless mess, a truncated tale of heroes and villains tied into a tangled knot of inexplicable mythology.Those who have read King’s books, I suspect, will split into two camps: those who recognize the many references director Nikolaj Arcel tosses into this weird mix of urban action and fantasy monsters, and those who will rage over