The best film I've seen in a long time.

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2010)

"Shutter Island" is the best film I've seen in a long while. While the subject of human insanity can hardly be described as fresh, never before had it been as well explored as it is in Scorcese and DiCaprio's shared effort. With a haunting beginning that brings Kubrick's "The Shining" to mind, "Shutter Island" is a roller-coaster of paranoia and claustrophobia, wonderfully directed from its first minute to the very last -- and let's not forget the amazing sound effects, which underline a feeling of suspense worthy of Hitchcock himself.
While you may be convinced that the ending is easy to foresee, you will find yourself proved wrong over and over again by the thousand plot twists thrown your way, all of them surprisingly believable and possible in essence. Also remarkable are the dream/hallucination sequences, which are visually mind-blowing and incredibly well thought-out. This is a psychological thriller like none I've seen before, one that will leave you feeling uncomfortable and linger in your mind for a very long time after viewing it: it will put you in the protagonist's place, and, as a human being, you will be terrified. I give it my most sincere 10/10