There’s an old saying that it’s better to be smarter than you look than to look smarter than you are. In the same way, it’s better for a movie to have a slow start with an excellent finish than to start off great and have a mediocre finish. Sadly, Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” falls into the latter category.
The film is a psychological thriller about two U.S. Marshals who have been called to a sanitarium for the criminally insane on an isolated island off the coast of Massachusetts to find a missing patient. During the investigation, the lead Marshal (Leonardo DiCaprio) suspects a greater evil is taking place on the island and is determined to uncover the truth.
To say that the second half of “Shutter Island” is a disappointment might be a bit much. However, it doesn’t quite live up to the building tension we see in the first half. I’ve seen a lot of what’s in this film before and even if it were not for the trailers, which give away far too much of the story, I would have guessed practically everything in the movie.
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