Are you kidding?

Rating: 1/10 (28 March 2010)

I was so looking forward to this movie. The trailer seemed promising. The term "unsettling" was used, and it filled me with hope as it's not a word that I've seen used very often in reviews.
It is an incredibly boring movie with an obvious plot twist. Although, can it really be called a "plot twist" when everyone and their mentally ill brother can see it coming from a mile away? DiCaprio is a patient at the hospital, there I said it, but you knew it.
Andrew Laeddis (DiCaprio) killed his wife because she killed their kids. He's been locked up in Ashecliff Hospital on Shutter Island. So, unable to deal with his murdering of his child drowning wife, he creates a new life (now he's named Teddy). Teddy thinks that the doctors are conducting human experiments. He also thinks that Laeddis (that jerk)is in the hospital and must find him because he believes that Laeddis killed his wife. Everyone living and working at the hospital reinforces his delusion so that he will come to accept his past. Read that last sentence again and really let it sink in. So it would seem that the hospital is conducting human experiments, or at least one really dumb one.
The doctors and other staff have given "Teddy" free time on the island. He's all over the damned place. He's scaling rock faces like he's Spider-Man. He swims through rough seas, and some how avoids all the jagged rocks, as though he were Michael Phelps. He throttles another inmate. He blows a car to smithereens.
The acting is really awful. The plot is on par with high school English assignments. The production is nothing to write home about either. Shame!