One to make us all go "goo goo"!

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2010)

In modern days, it's hard to make a movie that can impress an audience. Themes are always the same, and the word "innovation" seems not to affect the movie industry. This movie is not any different. Mental hospital's a theme that's been approached many times, since "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" to "House on Haunted Hill", etc...
In these cases what counts is the way it is directed, the people acting in it, the argument and most important, the imagination that keeps us attached to the screen. And Scorcese hit the bull's eye once again, since "The Departed". DiCaprio seems to be one of Scorcese's favourites, and i don't blame him. For the last few years he's been in such movies as "Catch Me If You Can", "The Aviator", "Blood Diamond", "The Departed", and now, "Shutter Island", all of theme with a distinct participation in my opinion.
And now, about the movie itself. The only word that pops in to my mind is... brilliant! I believe Scorcese out did him on this one. The way he drives the audience in to believing everything's real, and in the end, the last taglines from DiCaprio leading me to assume that he was cured after all... It seems he was inspired by "A Clockwork Orange" since the ending type is almost the same!
Nice job Martin!!