How much you enjoy this film really depends on what you want out of it. The film sets a great tone with some stunning visuals and the score completely grabs you. Ewan McGregor does a great job as an adult Danny Torrance and Rebecca Ferguson captivates as Rose the Hat. The last 30 mins or so are absolutely amazing and kudos to Flanagan for pulling it off. I for one prefer it over the novel and with this film, it most certainly feels like a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's version and a love letter to that film. "The Shining" (1980) to me and I'm sure a lot of you, is a masterpiece in filmmaking. He does make some serious changes though and while I embraced them I'm not sure how others who read the book will feel about them. I feel in this film adaptation, Flanagan takes elements from the novel and manages to make them more darker and serious which in turn really helped address some issues I had with the book.
Now i read the book and while I enjoyed it for the most part, I found parts of it underwhelming. Flanagan has done an amazing job adapting the book from Stephen King and giving lovers of the Kubrick film adaptation of "The Shining" (1980) a cinematic sequel. Reviewed by johnnyutah31 9 /10 Perfect Balanceįinally got to see my most anticipated film of the year and I'm happy to tell you it's everything I wished for and more. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. They look harmless-mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance.
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