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Originally Posted by direwolf
Funny, I had the opposite reaction. I thought that movie was very enjoyable throughout and a terrific companion to the original. Ewan McGregor was excellent as the grown up Danny Torrance, and the incredibly detailed recreation of the Overlook Hotel was really impressive.
The look-alike actors were similar enough to the original characters, and their scenes were so brief that it didn't take me out of the story at all. I thought Henry Thomas in particular underplayed the Jack/bartender role and didn't try to mimic Nicholson, which helped. The scene between him and Danny in the ballroom was really well done.
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I found The Shining references to be a bit too over the top, and seemed to be played for fan service rather than moving the story along. Overall it felt a lot more like a Marvel X-Men movie meets Sixth Sense than a sequel to something like The Shining. I do get that it pretty closely based on King's hastily written sequel to it, so I guess my criticism is more to King's writing here than anything else. It just kind of plodded along, predictably and without much sense of danger to the characters.