This was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. I’m a fan of both the Shining and Dr. Sleep novels, and the Kubrick film, and this movie brings them all together so well. I went in without even watching a trailer but right before the movie started, there was a featurette about recreating the Overlook Hotel and I started to get worried, but everything was done so well.
I had very few issues with this movie, one of them being some bad looking cgi on a corpse’s moving mouth so the last thing I wanted to see were cgi abominations of actors from 1980. Thankfully, they used new actors instead. I know there’s going to be deep fakes of these scenes on YouTube in the future, which will be cool to see, but I’m glad there wasn’t anything like that in the actual movie. Let us see actors act without all that distraction. Speaking of distractions, Ewan McGregor talking with an American accent... I don’t know if it was because it was bad or just weird to hear, but it bothered my ears. That’s probably because I’m far more used to hearing him as Obi-wan Kenobi than anything else.
Bottom line is, if you enjoyed both novels and Kubrick’s film, you’ll love this movie. If you’re elitist about any one of the aforementioned, you probably won’t enjoy it. For me, it was everything I could’ve hoped for.
9.5/10