Shutter Island

From Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, and based on the best-selling thriller by Dennis Lehane, comes Shutter Island, a tale of haunting mystery and psychological suspense that unfolds entirely on a fortress-like island housing a hospital for the criminally insane.

The year is 1954, at the height of the Cold War, when U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (three-time Academy Award® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are summoned to Shutter Island to investigate the implausible disappearance of a brilliant multiple murderess from a locked room within the impenetrable Ashecliffe Hospital. Surrounded by probing psychiatrists and dangerously psychopathic patients on the remote, windswept isle, they arrive into an eerie, volatile atmosphere that suggests nothing is quite what it seems.

Scorsese + DiCaprio + Psychological thriller = GOOD FILM.  The maths are quite simple and can’t be argued with.  Shutter Island is a good, solid, eery thriller that keeps you guessing all the way along and finally delivers a satisfying conclusion.

Scorsese skillfully keeps you unsettled as DiCaprio’s Teddy Daniels falls deeper and deeper into a paranoid and confused state.  He ensures that he keeps the movie in the Thriller genre and doesn’t let it veer into a horror, although it would have been nice to have a couple of big scares just to really rattle the audience.

A movie well worth seeing, and see it on the big screen to really get drawn into the mysterious world of Shutter Island.