Review of Doctor Sleep (2019) by Mauro_Lanari — 09 Dec 2019

(Mauro Lanari).

Too many movies in one and too inhomogeneous. The part I most appreciated is about the management of the shining, an ambivalent paranormal power that risked being still treated as a metaphor for adolescent issues (Stan Lee, Marvel, cinecomics). Instead, small debutante Kyliegh Curran and Ewan McGregor wander around in adult and less unresolved territories than "Red Lights" (Cortés 2012), favored by the stage presence of Cliff Curtis, Bruce Greenwood, Zahn McClarnon (here a native North American Colin Farrell) and above all of an unforgettable Rebecca Ferguson. The part on immortality (the True Knot vampire villains) and afterlife (the Doctor Sleep's dialogues with the dying) is frivolous, and the one on the Overlook Hotel simply bogus. Taking note that no image of Flanagan possesses a single shred of Kubrick's iconicity, I would have chosen to avoid confrontation at any cost.