Martin Scorsese has given us many films to love. Most recently The Departed which was one of my personal favorites, however I feel we have lost something on Shutter Island.
Its 1954 and two U.S. marshals are ordered to Shutter Island after the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) has been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders if his visit is part of a twisted scheme by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical and illegal to downright sinister.
While Teddy is busily interviewing all the patients and looking for a conspiracy, his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) begins to display concerns regarding Teddy's intensity on this case. Teddy's perceptive investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. Communication is cut off to the mainland following a hurricane. Many patients escape causing mass chaos to the already abnormal hospital. After a rather strange change of events Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
Shutter Island had many twist and turns, but don't expect the unexpected. This slow two hour and eighteen minute film feels like you are living it out in slow motion. Some scenes are dank and dull that makes it drag even more. Half way through most of the audience will figure out the mystery plaguing Shutter Island which makes you that more upset when the film finally ends. Being a huge Scorsese fan I was disappointed in this film. Leonardo DiCaprio offered a stellar performance and captured the audience's attention. Michelle Williams was a pivotal key to the plot as Dolores and proved once again to be an amazing performer. I tried to get lost on Shutter Island, but am sad to say even with its ominous tone and dreary setting I found myself dreading its predictable tale.
