I can't believe that Scorsese and DiCaprio gave this their best effort.

Rating: 6/10 (9 June 2010)

I was relatively disappointed in Shutter Island, and that absolutely shocks me. Disappointment is not a word that I ever thought I'd use to describe a Scorsese and DiCaprio collaboration.
The actual movie never delivered on the thrilling trailer. It wasn't what I was expecting, which isn't the problem. It was a much more psychological and cerebral movie than I thought it would be, but once again, that's not the problem. The problem was that I didn't find it to be particularly compelling. The story is relatively well told...it's just not a story that I could muster much interest in as I was watching.
As for the cast, we have a absurdly talented group of actors and actresses, who all give serviceable efforts. Nothing really to complain about, but nothing particularly noteworthy, either (though I thought Emily Mortimer was great in her short amount of screen time).
Shutter Island is a case of my expectations being much too high for the movie to live up to. It's not bad by any means, but I'm accustomed to excellence from those involved...not mere competence. Shutter Island felt like it could have been made by any of a dozen directors, and that's not an attribute of a great Scorsese movie.