Jack Nicholson's Best Role; Triumph for Kubrick

Rating: 10/10 (7 December 2005)

Jack Nicholson, as I'm sure probably everyone knows, is fabulous in everything. And this is his best role in my opinion: he epitomizes his character, he becomes his character and his performance can never be beat. Stanley Kubrick: how do you describe the mind of a genius? His sense of intuition; how he becomes one with his work: how he can adapt say, a novel into a single movie- delivering to us, the audience, exactly what we want to see and then some.
I love exposition. All of my favorite movies have lots of exposition and The Shining has it in abundance. The opening scene with the credits is intensely gripping: it grabs you and you wont want to let go, even after the movie ends. The way all of the scenes are put together: many quite in harmony with each other and the soundtrack, the chemistry between the actors and the gradual, persistent buildup of the plot is just about as perfect as it gets.
The best way to sum up this film is that it is a horror film with depth portraying some of the greatest, unexpected fears anyone could ever have. A must-have for great film connoisseurs.
10/10.