Quite disappointing... in a way

Rating: 5/10 (13 February 2010)

Just saw it at the world premiere in Berlin. Well, this movie has the labels 'Martin Scorsese' and 'Leonardo DiCaprio' written all over it. It is a good movie. It is a bad Scorsese movie. If you're into horror movies as I am, you will know the plot after about 15 Minutes. There are tons of Mad Asylum - movies out there, and this is just one of them. Take for instance the crappy 'Madhouse' - Movie with Joshua Jackson, or any other movie in this vein. Shutter Island is the luxury-packed, atmospherically gloomy version of these movies with good actors. Just because it says Scorsese/DiCaprio doesn't make a B-Horror-Flick something special. And Shutter Island is nothing more than a nice Asylum-Horror-Movie. If it had some no-name director and cast, it would have gone straight to DVD.
You can watch it, it is nice, never boring, the atmosphere is bleak and therefore good, but Scorsese usually delivers something special. Shutter Island is not.