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Leonardo DiCaprio
Mark Ruffalo
Ben Kingsley
Emily Mortimer
Michelle Williams
Max von Sydow

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US Marshal Teddy Daniels is sent to Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital to investigate a patient's disappearance. Long seeking to get to the island for personal reasons, his promising investigation is halted by the hospital blocking records. With a twisted doctor running things, and a hurricane looming, Daniels soon begins to question the real reason why he's there. -- Chris Kavan

01/22/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"Shutter Island" by Yojimbo

A federal marshal enters a maximum security asylum for the criminally insane but when he begins to suspect that illegal experiments are being performed on the patients he starts to fear for both his safety and his sanity. Martin Scorsese hasn't had much luck when straying from his forte but this pulpy psychological thriller is pitched just right. Having DiCaprio as his leading man certainly does not hurt and he delivers yet another irritatingly fine performance. Add a quality supporting cast and a nicely ominous and oppressive score together with Scorsese's perfectly paced direction and some nice otherworldly visuals and you have a recipe for a great offbeat thriller with more than a hint of Hitchcockian flavour. The biggest problem with the film is that anyone who has seen more than thre...

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3/4 

08/07/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Shutter Island review

The films main star is US Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio). It also involves is Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) and Dr. John Cawley(Ben Kinsley). Both Chuck and Teddy have been assigned to Shutter Island, where the Ashecliffe Hospital is located to resolve a mystery of the disappearance of a patient named Rachel Solando. The criminally insane institution has “secrets” discovered by Edward. He also experiences severe migraines and delusional images. Dr. Cawley exposes to Teddy that he is not Edward Daniels, but ex-Marshal Andrew Laeddis. From the middle of the film I feel the end is predictably. After completing the movie, I was essentially correct. For me, only the main protagonist was given character build-up. I felt the character of Michelle Williams (Dolores Chanel...

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2.5/4 

12/30/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Decent

I thoroughly enjoyed this movies throw back appeal. From the music to the scenery I thought it was very well done and invoked a style of movie making from the early days. Ones that would be considered cliche by todays standards but one that they somehow pulled off in this. I think this was a testament to the great acting involved in this movie. The actors really sold their roles so what one could consider cliche and unreal they made you believe. Well done on that front.

The movie can be a bit bland at times. Slow moving. Could be because of the above mentioned throw back style and the director trying to add that extra layer of suspense but to people who have been around the block one too many times when it comes to thrillers it just falls flat. It was entertaining to watch but at the ...

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2.5/4