Movie Review: Shutter Island (2010)

I just realized something. Every few movies that come nowadays, involve mental asylums, mental issues, and people losing it. Mentality is an important piece of film, great stories have emerged from that subject. Shutter Island is one of those movies, it's chilling, but it offers an interesting POV into the lives of mental patients. It's about a marine played by Leonardo Dicaprio, he has to go to this asylum on the Boston harbor islands, to investigate the escape of a convicted murderer. That's the description of this movie online, but that's really only the first hour of this two and a half hour fest. This movie then takes a huge twist, and it becomes completely unpredictable and predictable at the same time. Predictable, because once you hear the first twist, you can kind of see where this movie is going to go. On the other hand, the ending of this movie is so shocking, that I wouldn't have seen it coming for a while. This movie is really fun because of the twists and turns. Half the fun is sitting there and guessing what the next scene will bring to the movie. This movie in parts feels like your watching an episode of Twilight Zone. I used to watch that show all the time, which made me enjoy this fillm that much more. Overall, Shutter Island is a disturbing, yet well acted and very entertaining film. Three stars.