Shutter Island: well worth your time and money

Rating: 9/10 (21 February 2010)

I enjoyed everything about this movie, and I am the sort of person who habitually waits for movies to come out on DVD because I refuse to pay movie theater prices and deal with long ticket-purchasing lines. My husband and I are thinking of seeing it again at the movie theater.
The look, the directing/editing, the acting, the music, were all done extremely well. It had an old movie feel to it. I find I enjoy DiCaprio's acting the older he becomes--and he did not disappoint with this one. It is a thriller in the true sense of the word. Perhaps there are those movie goers who are more intuitive about endings or even in figuring out where a movie is headed early on in the picture, but for me, the movie unfolded at a very nice pace. I had enough time to think 'ok, where is this headed now?' but the 'maybe this or maybe that' still kept me wondering, never quite sure where it was headed--it could go this way or that or that, up unto its conclusion. Too many movies build-up, build-up only to disappoint the viewer at the end, this simply did not.
My husband and I recommend Shutter Island, and at a minimum, rent it when it comes out on DVD.