Review of Doctor Sleep (2019) by Brent_Marchant — 09 Nov 2019

This jumbled, overlong, often-boring, frequently silly sequel to the Stanley Kubrick horror classic "The Shining" misfires so much and so often that it's an utter embarrassment to all involved.

With a painfully protracted runtime of 2:32 and a storytelling approach that inexplicably vacillates between campy romp and trite horror fare, filmmaker Mike Flanagan's directorial skills simply aren't up to paying homage to the artistry of the predecessor picture's creator, especially in one particularly grotesque sequence that's flat out in stupendously bad taste.

What's more, the writing and acting are frequently laughable, so horrendously awful that I often found myself chuckling over material that I probably wasn't supposed to be laughing at. You know you've got a stinker on your hands when you see, as I did at my screening, viewers getting up and leaving not even halfway into the movie.