The movie was enjoyable in some ways, but watching it is kind of like watching fan fiction. The movie relies too heavily on nostalgia from the original movie, The Shining, and does not focus enough on making the movie compelling on its own. The movie lacks suspense because they decided to make the girl, Abra, so powerful that I never believed the antagonists were true threats. Watching her take on the villains was like watching Macaulay Culkin take on the burglars in Home Alone. She handles them too easily with a smile on her face and she never seems to be in distress. To make matters worse, the villains are supposed to be quasi immortal people who have lived for centuries, but they get taken out so easily that it is hard to believe they could have survived this long. The movie is long yet somehow the writers failed to give most of them a character arc that helps us understand why they are part of the group instead of being eaten like their victims. Adding to that previous thought, this tribe seems to have difficulty handling even the slightest bit of resistance. How in hundreds of years did they not acquire some tricks for handling people who resist them and what is the point of having a tribe of people with psychic abilities if they can't handle two people with guns?
The movie at one point makes a funny remark about how Netflix may be the cause of less people gaining psychic ability. That of course makes no sense and is almost a joke on the movie itself. This movie is Netflix quality and the idea behind it is Netflix like. Netflix tends to carry movies and TV shows that are loosely based off of original movies. The quality of these unoriginal spin offs is about the same as Doctor Sleep.
The end of the movie is pretty lame tbh. It took about 20 minutes to reach the climax location and the ending was very predictable.
The movie at one point makes a funny remark about how Netflix may be the cause of less people gaining psychic ability. That of course makes no sense and is almost a joke on the movie itself. This movie is Netflix quality and the idea behind it is Netflix like. Netflix tends to carry movies and TV shows that are loosely based off of original movies. The quality of these unoriginal spin offs is about the same as Doctor Sleep.
The end of the movie is pretty lame tbh. It took about 20 minutes to reach the climax location and the ending was very predictable.