Kubrick is disloyal to the book, and it shows.

Rating: 2/10 (12 June 2016)

What makes the Shining great as a book ? Character development. The main protagonist is a normal man, a loving husband and father, who doesn't show any signs of insanity. But then he is enchanted, he slowly turns mad to the point that he is consumed by a state of crime. Instead, in the movie, Nicholson goes nuts from the beginning, hardly plays his true character, Duvall shouts, and then the ridiculous chase between him and his wife and their son, and the final trail inside this ice maze, was the ultimate embarrassment.
You have a great cast, and the only intention is to sabotage a great story just for what ? Ego and pride ? As usual, Kubrick demonstrates again his intentions of betraying great novels to turn them into silly soap movies.
I'll give it a two because Nicholson tries hard, but the script is so bad that it is basically the same ambiance that reigns from the start to finish. It is really maudlin.