One of Kubrick's best

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2003)

First I must say: Yes I have read the book and I found it brilliant. And yes it's a shame that Kubrick changed so many things. But let's forget the book and look at this as just a movie. It's pure terror. It's one of those movies that managed to truely scare me, something that doesn't happen very often. Kubrick shows again, he's one of the greatest directors ever, and Jack Nichelson gives us a great performance. My only problem here is the lack of real characters. Lets face it, The only change Jack Torrence made, was from a loonatic without an axe into a loonatic with an axe.
SPOILERS But then, that might have something to do with the meaning of this movie. After all, Jack has been at Overlook before, as we see at the end. That might also be the reason he went there again, just to kill his family; it might have been his plan from the start, perhaps without him even noticing. END SPOILERS
And Shelly Duvall was only there screaming and crying, being no real character at all. But apart from that, and can't see anything that's wrong with this movie (apart form the way it doesn't stick to the book, but I've already mentioned that). It's pure terror. (10/10)