Disaster

Rating: 2/10 (6 November 2019)

This is one of those movies that separates reviewers who watch movies with their eyes wide open and unawed by the name above the title, from the lemmings who basically stop thinking with the name of the director. The movie is perfectly awful. jack Nicholson plays the father as charmless from the outset, and seriously unbalanced from the start. The long gradual descent into semi-madness that makes the book memorable is completely missing. So, too, is the vivid description of the young boy as he gradually realizes the extent of his dilemma. The movie lacks subtlety, nuance, and suspense. If it had been made by anyone except Stanley Kubrick, it would have been relegated to the dust heap, where it justly belongs.