Good, but not as much as you'd been told

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2002)

This is good for a Stanley Kubrick film. Kubrick being the most over-rated film maker of all time, who made dross after dross after dross.
This is well acted, had a good plot [the influence of Stephen King's storytelling shows through], and were it not for a under the weather performance from Duvall -- compared to her colleagues -- and the annoying directing of Kubrick -- the king of uninspiring and dull symbolism, this would have been a lot better.
Jack Nicholson plays a nut case in the way that only he can, he truly is one of the outstanding actors of his generation, well up there with De Niro, Malkovich et al.
Worth a look, but you'd have to enquire what extra value you get on the DVD -- is it really worth the price difference?