Thrilling

Rating: 8/10 (9 April 2010)

At the start, because of a few very poorly scripted lines, I was worried that Shutter Island was going to be a very obvious, very 'Hollywood' sort of movie. But by the end, it was clear that this is a very unique and excellent film! It had such a clever plot and there were many twists. Throughout almost all of Shutter Island, the tension was ratcheted up extremely high and I found myself genuinely very scared of quite a few of the scenes!
Some of the scenes were absolutely brilliantly done and were totally engrossing and moving; the cinematography of Shutter Island was fantastic! The acting was mainly very good and Dicaprio did a very good job of the main character.
This is one of those films which, when you leave the cinema, leaves you thinking very deeply- this is probably due to the fact that this whole film is basically based around psychosis. Any film that does this is almost automatically very good and Shutter Island is no exception to this rule- it's brilliant.