Shutter Island promises much. As U.S. Marshal Edward Daniel, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, approaches it by windswept ferry, a huge threatening double bass soundtrack (akin to Jaws) strikes up, to give an instant foreboding of menace. The island is home to Ashecliffe Hospital, a correctional facility cum hospital for the criminally insane. The inmates are nearly all murderers, and one of them has escaped. Daniel finds the investigation into the patient's whereabouts less than straightforward. The rocky island is surrounded by ferocious seas, and in these storm conditions, the escapee, one Rachel Solando, cannot have got far. However, not only does Daniel find ...  Read the complete review

I am not usually one for watching many thrillers as the twisted endings usually annoy me but being a Leonardo DiCaprio fan, I decided to give Shutter Island a shot. It is a film directed by Martin Scorsese and is a new release. I didn't know too much about the plot before watching it nor had I read many reviews which in a way I preferred because I could make my own opinion this way without any other influences. The film begins with us meeting Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) a US Marshal and his partner Chuck (Mark Ruffalo) set in the 1950's as they go to Shutter Island to the Ashecliffe Hospital which is for the mentally insane. Their reasoning for being ...  Read the complete review

What is this film? As I began to watch Shutter Island I suspected I was about to watch a horror. I hate horror films, I cannot understand why anyone would pay to be frightened; fear is not a nice emotion, it's a bad one and one I try to avoid, like stress, and pain, and nausea. But the opening scenes seemed to suggest that this was going to be a chiller. The film opens to US Marshall Teddy Daniels (Di Caprio) meeting his new partner, Chuck Aule (Ruffalo) on a boat across to the insane asylum on Shutter Island. And as they approach the penitentiary and enter through the gates a stabbing, discordant string backing plays in Hitchcock-esque ...  Read the complete review

Shutter Island [15] Released: 2010, Run-time: 138 minutes, Genre: Drama/Mystery/ Psychological thriller. Film only review, watched via Netflix. Plot Synopsis It's 1954 and emotionally unstable war veteran, U.S Marshall, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) has been sent to Shutter Island to investigate the escape and subsequent disappearance of inmate and criminally insane murderer Rachel (Emily Mortimer). Shutter Island is a high security institution for the criminally insane and is situated on it's own island. It is on treacherous land, un-reachable unless by boat and is frequently battered by extreme weather. The Island is isolated and the land ...  Read the complete review

Shutter Island is something of a departure for Martin Scorsese. Normally, his films New York based character studies of how good men can be seduced by evil. On the face of it, Shutter Island is more of a popcorn movie, a bog standard conspiracy thriller, although in the hands of Director Scorsese and writer Dennis Lehane, the truth is somewhat more complex. US Marshall Teddy Daniels is sent to Shutter Island, an asylum for the criminally insane off the coast of Maine. There to investigate the disappearance of a prisoner, he soon starts to realise that all is not what it seems. Shutter Island is one of those clever films with a well-structured ...  Read the complete review