Fear and Loathing on Shutter Island

Rating: 9/10 (25 February 2010)

As with many other Scorsese films, you must watch this film accurately and actively from the beginning to the end, preferably in the movie theater, by yourself, alone. Then, you will start to feel the intended magic of this film. I can sit here and talk about great acting in the movie, great cinematography, great direction, but I will leave it to other reviewers. The greatest part of the film is that each piece of the movie is constructed in a way to bend and manipulate your mind, and at the end, after all twists and turns, your mind is completely confused, unwilling to interpret further, and its only objective becomes to question the sanity of its beholder. When you drive home, and you feel that you just got released from the asylum and you actively questioning your state of mental health while observing fellow car drivers for the signs of deception, lunacy, and yet again deception, you kind of know that the movie succeeded and provided a great cinematic experience. As for other reviewers, who question the stability of this movie by asking why, if being this good, it wasn't released in December for 2009 Oscars, I have a simple explanation, why release it in December and be nominated and go home empty handed, after the magician Mr. Cameron rightly takes all the awards, if you can release the film in February, go for 2010 Oscars, and have a greater probability at winning a few awards. As always, very clever move from Mr. Scorsese. Don't miss this one, it Will make you "insane" for at least 2 1/2 hours....guaranteed.