A piece of c**p

Rating: 5/10 (22 September 2000)

This is nothing more than a big bad overblown egomanical piece of c**p and surely the worst film by Stanley Kubrick. And it´s also one of the worst adaptations of a Stephen King novel, because there´s not much left from the novel.Jack Nicholson is crazy from the beginning. There´s nothing of his gradual mental downslide, which made the book so effective and full of suspense. Shelley Duvall´s acting consists mostly of wide starry eyes and stupid screaming. Only plusses of this mess are the production design, the camerawork and the music selection. Anything else on screen is the big ego of the late Mr. Kubrick and that is not very watchable and not very entertaining.