Scorsese does Hitchcock - BADLY!!!

Rating: 2/10 (13 March 2010)

I will start calling him Martin Scorcheesey after seeing this lame attempt at psycho-thriller. I could never figure out if the movie was supposed to be ironic, poking fun at the genre, or just chock full of bad clichés from lack of creativity. Either way, it is chock full of bad clichés, almost all of which are lifted from Hitchcock thrillers, but minus the suspense part. It's full of very unlikely scenarios and incomprehensible writing. An example (no spoiler): the island is supposed to be an asylum for the most horrendous criminally insane, can't-find-another-place-to-put-'em criminals, so you might be expecting something like Hannibal Lector, but no; when asked why she's there, one patient says, "I killed my husband..." and she ends up in this place??? Unless she killed him and ate his genitals scrambled with eggs for breakfast, she needs to be in the 'regular' asylum or just prison. What's scary about killing your husband?
The movie is not scary, funny, suspenseful or anything except too long and too boring.