Not Shining at All

Rating: 1/10 (5 March 2016)

The Shining was an extremely long, boring, and dull film. It's regarded by many critics and film enthusiasts to be "one of" or the "scariest film" ever, yeah right.
I bought the DVD seven years ago and watched it late at night. It was boring and i nearly fell a sleep. It was not scary at all.
I watched the movie again today twice. Still boring and not scary at all.
Technically the movie was brilliantly made. Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall delivered great underrated performances, but the story was flat, hollow, and has no depth. It came across more as a psychological drama disguised as a horror film than an actual horror film, therefore had it has no depth beyond the surface.
Stanley Kubrick is a great filmmaker, but this film was not his best. It's unfortunate because I'm a big fan of all his other films, not including Fear and Desire, that was pretty bad too, but that was his first film. Anyway, I'm not going to lie and say that "The Shining" is a great movie just because I'm a big a fan of his other films.
I later read the Stephen King novel on which this film is based and it's far superior than the film, but then that's almost always the case with any great book made into a movie with a few exceptions (The Exorcist, Dune).