Appalling nonsense.

Rating: 2/10 (4 March 2011)

I had the misfortune of seeing this movie the night after seeing Johnny Kervorkian's 'The Disappeared'. That movie is a bit slow-moving, but has strong performances and at the end of it I felt I had passed a really worthwhile evening watching it. Shutter Island, in contrast, was a pile of excrement. Great locations, an A-list cast, big budget everything.... but a contrived and totally worthless story. Absolutely insulting to the people who died in concentration camps. At some stage in the second half Sir Ben Kingsley utters a long fatuous line about the whole story being an ultra-elaborate attempt to get the lead character to connect back with reality, and I flipped, and stormed out. Maybe I'm crazy, but this was crap.