A Cool, Though Easily Predicted, Twist Ending, and a Generic Missing Person Plot

Rating: 6/10 (9 February 2017)

Shutter Island follows a US Marshal who goes to an island filled with mental patients and attempts to locate a woman who escaped the asylum.
I have really mixed feelings about this movie, mostly due to the twist ending, which I will try my best not to spoil. While it is incredibly easy to predict at least an hour in, I still enjoyed the ride more or less. The mystery itself plays out how every missing persons case seems to play out in film. It's generic in it's presentation and writing right up until the last twenty minutes, where it makes everything slightly more acceptable. But it's still 2 hours of uninspired blegh, so I don't really know how to feel about it.
There are several scenes throughout the movie that don't make a lick of sense, but are explained by the ending more or less. Still, they aren't fully comprehensible, and while they can be easily explained, they still didn't make total sense. A lot of this movie doesn't, but the ending wraps it up well enough. Again, I'm not sure what I think about it.
Despite the fact that the ending does a decent job of wrapping up an otherwise unoriginal story, there still isn't much in the technical respect. The directing is nothing special, nor is the soundtrack, acting, writing, or anything else. Really, the ending is the only thing that saved the movie, but as a whole it's just kind of nothing.
Overall Shutter Island is good-ish. The ending is kind of a cop-out, but it still works, especially in accordance with the last hour (where it ceases to make sense). However, the ending is so unbelievably obvious that I can't give it much credit. It's not mind-blowing or anything, but more a confirmation of the audience's suspicions. In the end Shutter Island is by no means a bad movie, but it is by no means a great movie. I would even hesitate to call it 'good'. It's alright. It's a lot of nothing simply for a confirmation at the end. Still, I probably would recommend it to some people, more because of how much of a classic it has become and less because it's actually a great movie.