 What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here So this year's gonna be my review for the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's as well as Stephen King's Best one of his best-selling novels the shining as we all know I did make a video previously Discussing how it was receiving early praise And of course now that I've seen the film for myself I can see that the praise is warranted because the doctor sleep while it's not as good as The shining and it's not going to be as horrific to some as the shining It is a well-made companion to that story and somehow Mike Flanagan managed to make a film that kind of just It kind of balances out and it does everything it needs to to kind of be a sequel to Kubrick's film Recognize the novel the shining and then also recognize the novel that is doctor sleep I would say for the first two thirds of the movie that that's the strongest and then the and then the third act It's gonna the third act is gonna be amazing for a lot of fans of the shining Then it does stumble of it has a few hiccups there and then it just it feels a bit rushed But other than that, this was a very good movie First of all, I want to talk right off the bat about Rose Rose Ferguson not Rose Ferguson. I think I'm forgetting her name Rebecca Rebecca Ferguson She is an absolute treat as Rose the Hat She's very seductive in the role very charming very charismatic and she just brings like a new She's based off what I've read because I haven't fully read the novel of doctor sleep I still have a few pages, but she Perfectly embodies that character in my opinion. She is an amazing actress of Everything the way she does with everything she does with this character the way she talks the way she walks This vibe she gives off of her Any anytime she was talking I was just listening. I was just hooked on to what she was saying She has like this trance like voice again since Rebecca Ferguson is very very attractive of the character of Rose the Hat now is very attractive. So Aside from that The villain is also Rose the Hat is very sadistic. She's very methodical She is very Sinister with what she wants to do and her intentions are very sinister She basically is the leader of this group known as the true not who in this universe they Exist so also doctor sleep is expanding on what we already found out about the shining and Danny Danny Torrance His shining capability It expands on all of that And we find out that there's this there's people in the world who feed off of this stuff So in this particular story, they there's a group of people are known as the true not just a group of people who are quote-unquote immortal because What they do they have abilities of their own their psychic their psychic individuals What these people do is they feed off of the life source or they feed off of the life of the people with the Shining ability because what it does is it it provides them youth and a longer lifespan They are in a sense This world's vampires and what I kind of appreciate is how What it's saying here is that the vampires if vampires were real or the vampires that we all know and love They're based off of these real life individuals that Feed off of the feet off of the shine and therefore they're immortal. They stay young forever. I like that Other than that doctors sleep another another few things that has working for it is Ewan McGregor who stars as the grown-up Danny Torrance in the film basically said a few decades after Mishining and we're following Danny who was now grown up. He has sadly fallen into the same alcoholic habits of his father He's still recovering from the events at the Overlook Hotel We get to catch up with him see see the struggles He's been going through and then he's also been in communication with a young girl that he Becomes pen pals with the source once he decides that he wants to Not go down that same dark road that his father when he wants to start new He becomes pen pals a sort with a girl who he learns has the same abilities as he does to shine Once she becomes the target of the true not they team up they take it they go they Seek to take down the true not the movie is just very The movie is very enchanting Mike Flanagan. He's one of the best directors out now He has been someone who I've been paying attention to since he kind of broke out with the 2013 film Oculus he managed to recover and save the Ouija horror series with a six with a moderately decent sequel Gerald's game. He did that was great He hasn't done anything That's been received negatively in my opinion just yet not that I can recall and then coming off the coming off The success of the haunting of Hill House, which he also did for Netflix last year. This is just a great year for him I think this is gonna be his biggest his biggest hit For a film so far cuz so to make a sequel a successful worthy sequel mind you to one of the best horror films ever That's gonna be something that's gonna set you apart from the rest of the Directors out today This is a big accomplishment for him. The score in Dr. Sleep is very unnerving is chilling The Newton Brothers do a great job at recreating certain tunes from the shining. There's a particular scene towards the end where Many fans who grew up with that film and know everything about the shining you're gonna get chills sent down your spine It's very it's very nostalgic Overall, this movie is just it's just an absolute blast. It's a love letter to the shining not in not It's an imperfect love letter because it has several flaws several things that make that prove Why it is not better than the shining and then just the third act again is a bit clunky But aside from that Dr. Sleep, I'm gonna have to give it a solid 7.5 out of 10 Oh and another thing the young actress in it Abra Abra's the girl that Danny befriends the young girl that he has he befriends and helps to take down the true not with The actors that plays her she is one of the very few rare child actors who don't get on your nerves And you want to see more of the character She is an absolute treat and the light to see on screen There's also a little bit of darkness to this character So it's gonna be interesting to see if this will even affect her later on in her life with her shining capabilities Of course, those are just some of the questions that we have to ponder after watching dr. Sleep Dr. Sleep just like the shiny leaves several things left unanswered several things for you to wonder and ponder on All in all a very worthy expansion in this universe a Solid sequel to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining it's just a beautiful film dr. Sleep is a