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MovieMail's Review
Combining a hard-boiled police procedural with elements of horror and melodrama, Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffallo, is a rollercoaster of a film that will keep you on the edge of your seats, says Peter Wild.
It’s 1954. Two US marshalls, Teddy (Leonardo Di Caprio) and Chuck (Mark Ruffalo) are travelling to Shutter Island, home of a high security mental institution, to find out what happened to a young woman locked up for murdering her three children – only to have apparently disappeared from her cell. From the moment Teddy glimpses an elderly red-eyed demon pruning flowers, we sense there is more to proceedings than meets the eye…
Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Dennis LeHane’s bestselling period crime drama, Shutter Island, is something of a curiosity. Combining a hard-boiled police procedural with elements of both horror and melodrama (think David Fincher’s Zodiac by way of Jacob’s Ladder if the resulting concoction was directed by Scarlet Street/Cloak & Dagger-period Fritz Lang), the resulting rollercoaster makes for the kind of film that keeps the viewer on the edge of his/her seat right up to the last few moments. With a strong supporting cast – including Max Von Sydow, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams and Emily Mortimer – and the odd nod to Hitchcock (particularly Psycho & Vertigo), Shutter Island is essential viewing for Scorsese fans.
An adaptation of the psychological crime novel by Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley.
Federal Marshals Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Ruffalo) are sent to Shutter Island, home to a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. There, they investigate the disappearance of multiple murderer Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), who appears to have simply vanished from the institution. It soon becomes apparent, however, that no one on the island is telling the truth, and as Daniels becomes more embroiled in the sinister goings on, he begins to question everything, even his own sanity...
