powerful thriller, yet too disturbing

Rating: 9/10 (20 February 2010)

Intriguing story of a Marshall investigating a missing criminally insane inmate at the Shutter Island facility in Boston Harbor. LD did an excellent acting job of playing the role of the Marshal. MvS played the cynical doctors roll with great zeal. The direction was very good and acting was superb. This movie showed a glimpse into the treatment options for psychosis and extreme anti-social behavior.
But, beware; the movie does contain graphic depictions of violence, mass graves, and young children's death. The scenes of the concentrations camps were surreal, so not as disturbing as what followed. The death scenes near the end of the movies were so vivid and disturbing that we ended up leaving the theater before the movie finished. Anyone with young children should be cautioned about the graphic nature of the final scenes of the movie. I was surprised that this film was not rated NC-17 due to this graphic scene.
I personally think the movie was excellent and up there with "Abre los ojos", but would have been better a better movie with the disturbing scene by the lake being cut out of the movie.