![]() ![]() It’s a shame, because so many of the elements work initially, including Ewan McGregor as the grown-up Dan, Rebecca Ferguson as the wonderfully menacing villain Rose the Hat and Kyliegh Curran as Abra, the young girl whose mental abilities eclipse even Dan’s glow.īeginning with Dan as a boy in a meticulously detailed sequence, the narrative quickly advances to Dan the man, where he has taken refuge from that terrifying childhood and sought to silence his ghosts with alcohol. ![]() The film then devolves, however, into a sort-of extended homage to Kubrick’s movie, striking in its familiar visual imagery, but in terms of the larger story, an overlong mess. ![]() Writer-director Mike Flanagan (who previously adapted another King work with “Gerald’s Game”) seemingly tries to split the difference, setting up King’s three-pronged storyline, which becomes more tense and involving as those points intersect. Part of the blame, in this case, is essentially serving two masters: the dense plot of King’s 2013 book, which follows the Dan Torrance character into adulthood and the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film, which took considerable liberties with the source, leaving behind a memorable horror classic with some problematic aspects in terms of the story. Add “Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep” – the long-delayed sequel to “The Shining” – to the list of movie and TV adaptations based on the author’s work that shine at first, before flaming out down the stretch. ![]()
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