Review of Doctor Sleep (2019) by Aire_Reciclado — 18 Nov 2019

Although Dr Sleep has good intentions and there's definitely some very intense and disturbing moments, it never really goes beyond the cheap, horror film we've all seen enough of... disappointing the two masters where it borrows from.

I found it difficult to watch as the characters nor the world ever appeared organic or mysterious, rather than caricatures of human beings, spilling exposition and making forced decisions. You can tell all the ideas in the movie are genious when flying off the page of Stephen King, but the film language doesnt really do justice to his sense of darkness and evil.

The same goes to its relationship with Kubrick's The Shining with which shares the same amount of similarities as fine wine does to kool-aid. Finally, if the movie wasn't insufrible enough, they couldnt let go of the opportunity of trying to establish a franchise with the last scene.