Shutter Island
AroView: Martin Scorsese’s intensely atmospheric, if overly confounding psychological thriller, set on a remote island which is home to shadowy mental asylum for the criminally insane.
Fronted by Scorsese’s frequent leading man of late, DiCaprio plays a U.S Marshall investigating the escape of a patient convicted of murdering her children – the least of his worries in a story that takes great liberties in testing the sanity of both its tormented main character and the viewer. Positively schizophrenic in its head-trip of garish hallucinations and paranoid delusions, there’s little concrete here to engage the mystery buff, though as a lavishly shot potboiler dressed in an imposing gothic sensibility, there’s plenty to admire in Scorsese’s craftsmanship. Adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane.
Cast
Ben Kingsley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow
Director
Languages
English, German
Country
USA
Studio
Paramount
