An OK story fully loaded with subliminal propaganda

Rating: 4/10 (24 October 2014)

Are the holocaust-movies so plenty lately that even the most liberal ones are getting tired of them? But you still need to push the agenda to guilt-trip the people? Well lets make a completely unrelated movie, then scatter flashbacks" in it with the most emotionally loaded pictures possible! (Dead and frozen women and children puring out of boxcars? Only the dead puppy is missing!) You might as well also put a historical controversy in the flashbacks about Allied war crimes and than claim it's a madman's fantasy at the and while you are at it. Some radical feminist agenda can also be found in the movie, for example the way they present domestic violence, or that the husband is responsible for everything, even his wife's crimes.
The story itself is OK, with a clever plot twist. However there is something amiss the whole time and not in the way they intended: the island supposed to be a well locked mental hospital for the most dangerous criminally insane people in the US. But there are no Hannibal Lecters locked up there! The inmates you find are ordinary madmen with 1-2 ordinary" kills (without extreme brutality) tops, some of them didn't even kill anyone. These people wouldn't need a maximum security institute. The same is the problem with the threat that they will find a way to diagnose the inspector with something and than keep him there: an ordinary madman has no place in a maximum security madhouse.
To sum it up: the idea for the story is good and they could have made a really good movie of it if it wasn't just an excuse for pushing an agenda. Like this it's so full of mistakes it's barely a mediocre movie.