A good movie is more than an unexpected plot twist

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2010)

If you read why some people don't like this movie, it's often because of the twist - the predictable, foreseeable twist.
To those critics I can only say that this movie doesn't even need to have a twist.
Shutter Island builds up a surrealistic, dream-woven, poetic atmosphere. Since the whole story is imaginary and spins around and around in a single mind, having a twist means nothing else but coming back to our point of departure.
So, to some, this movie has a twist. To others, it hasn't. It's relative. But that's not the point.
Why are you looking for a twist anyway - what actually are you looking for? I don't get it. You never watch movies twice? You never read a story twice?
Shutter Island is a very good movie because it works like a poem.