Sunday, July 3, 2011

SHUTTER ISLAND (Review originally posted Febuary 16, 2010)

My review is going to be short and sweet. But first...let me tell you, it is a must see movie. The movie starts off really slow and tells you about two US Marshalls, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island's fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane. As the story goes and the plot thickens...we find that Teddy Daniels (Played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is having Hallucinogenics about his dead wife and about his war past.
Daniels is out to prove that there is something very wrong with the Island and that he's out to show the world that the island he and his partner are on is doing scientific experiments on all the patients on the island.
The Story is well written and the plot gets even more suspenseful as Daniels gets closer to solving the puzzle of the island...only to find out that it is Daniels that is insane and that the Doctors (Ben Kingsley) are out to help Daniels (DiCaprio).
The Flashbacks in this movie help out in the story and near the end, it's easy to figure out why Daniels went insane...His wife killed his own children leading to Daniels killing his own wife.
What more can you say about a movie Directed by Martin Scorsese...Two Thumbs Up!

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