Awful!

Rating: 1/10 (9 November 2005)

I absolutely despise this one. When I first saw it I was expecting a lot, as it is said to be a good (almost legendary) movie. However, I was totally disgusted by what the story of Stephen King has turned into. Stanley Kubrick has entirely abandoned the original version, and folks, I have heard that Mister Stephen King himself was furious about Kubrick's adaptation and told him that several times. The story is weird. Jack Nicholson's dumb "I'm-as-nuts-as-a-moron-and-kill-'em-all" glance, which is presented for ages without a cut, is so cheap and just disgusting. The reason why I give it a 1 is because I cannot stand Jack Nicholson in here, and because the entire movie is just a huge waste of good time you could spend doing something that has substance, something this movie thoroughly lacks.