A WASTE of Time

Rating: 2/10 (4 February 2012)

THIS REVIEW IS A MASSIVE SPOILER
I genuinely found this movie to be terrible.
It was overdone, and extremely predictable. Essentially, (SPOILER COMING) if you like movies where everything you just watched isn't true and is undone RIGHT at the end (Beautiful Mind, Sixth Sense), then you'll love Shutter Island. If you think movies like that are annoying, or (worse) frankly just lazy, (as I do) you'll hate this movie. If I could sum this movie up in one sentence, I'd call it, "A Beautiful Mind set in an insane asylum".
As for the acting itself, it's well-enough done, no qualms there. The musical score, however, is often so over-the-top that it's actually comical, rather than setting a suspenseful mood as it obviously intends. In fact, the musical score right at the beginning of the film as the main characters approach Shutter Island, is so overdone that it's somewhat hilarious. Saturday Night Live should really do a spoof of it.