Shutter Island

Shutter Island

Running Time: 138 minutes

Summary: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

Review: It is a pretty rare thing for Jon and I to go see a movie in the theatre but the new Martin Scorcese definitely caught my eye. The trailers and plot summaries I read before seeing it, sold it as sort of a supernatural thriller/mystery. And as you may have noticed by now, that is my cup of tea.

It was definitely not what I expected.

This movie is definitely more of a "Who Done It" than anything else. The premesis of the movie is that a woman has gone missing on the remote island/mental institute for the crtimally insane, Shutter Island. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play US Marshals who are sent to help find a woman who has gone missing. As the two men try to solve the mystery of what happened to her, they discover there is much more to Shutter Island than meets the eye. The story was very intricate and has that wonderful "Scorcese" feel to it, the layers of subtext and twists just keep coming and coming with the big twist at the end, making you want to watch the movie again from the beginning immediately. The book that this movie is based on is already reserved for me at the library!

The casting was well done. Leonardo DiCaprio, who I sometimes have trouble seperating from other roles that he has played, seemed like he has finally found a character that he can't just apply his usual formula to and whatever he did worked. Mark Ruffalo(who I love in EVERYTHING) was great but could have had more screen time. Even Ted Levine (formerly Buffalo Bill of Silence of the Lambs) was extrememly memorable in his few minutes as the creepy Warden of the mental hospital.

After I got over my preconceptions that the story was supernaturally driven, I really began to enjoy this movie. It wasn't one that I would have chosen to go see in the theatre if I had known what the story really was, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.

Best Quote: Teddy Daniels "Baby, I love this because you gave it to me, but it is one fuckin ugly tie."

Rating: 7.9 nests out of 10