Yes I don't care whether it's on the IMDb top 250 because it's flawed. This has to be one of the most overrated movies I have ever seen, all the fuss, just silly. It deserves about 6. It's really overrated, nothing grips me at all.
I do love some of Kubriks work but this is a failure, I mean it, one word sums this up and that is; Overrated.
Watch it if you like but you'd be lying to yourself if you found it a "masterpiece". I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, ''The Shining'' is a masterpiece.. or well better than this anyway. Respect Kubriks better work, it's certainly not this.
And although this review might not have helped you understand how overrated this film is, read Roger Ebert's review of it, although I'm not really a fan of Mr Eberts work or opinions, I do happen to make an exception of this. He enters the film and confronts it's many flaws, basically things I wouldn't even dare dip my toe in.