A Disappointing Copy of a better film

Rating: 1/10 (26 July 2010)

Ever head of the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? Probably not, seeing as its an older silent film--the film that first introduced the twist ending to viewers and started up the horror genre. I know, it must seem random to bring up some old silent film, right?
Absolutely wrong. Shutter Island is an unimaginitive rip of of the prior. When watching this movie, I knew it seemed similar to some other movie, I just didn't know how similar it was. Essentially, the plot of Caligari is a horror story of murders which in the end is revealed to be in a patient's head. The bad guy was actually the doctor of the insane asylum at which he lived.
In Shutter Island the bad guy would seem to be the doctor, and the twist ending (a rather obvious on I guessed before the film) was that it was a patient who was imagining the whole thing.
Seriously, these two are two similar, and a film as important to film history as Caligari is one that should be held in much higher esteem than this.
And I didn't even start on the acting, which was just as weak as the movie.