Too overrated psycho-thriller

Rating: 5/10 (5 September 2010)

After the many positive or too overrated reviews I thought Shutter Island must be a very promising thriller. But I expected too much and finally I rate this only five stars out ten. Why? The first half I wait and wait until something special happens. Then the plot is for me not hot enough to get adrenalin. Even the end let me cold and I could only shake my head. The story was even predictable that from the running time of two hours they could have cut at least 30 minutes. Director Martin Scorsese is the specialist to expand movies as he did already in The Aviator or Goodfellas and I definitely don't like extra long films.
One sequence remembered me the cartoon of Tom and Jerry playing in the mysterious castle where the brain of the dog is switched in the cat or the sound of bird takes over the elephant and so on if you know what I mean.
The dialogs were well adapted to the Fifties and Leonardo Di Caprio delivered here one of his best performance. Ben Kingsley is back again and was very believable in his role. Visually it was good too and the scenery well chosen. Avoid this overrated movie except if you are a Di Caprio fan. See instead the other lighthouse thrillers MURDERS BY NUMBERS or HALF LIGHT.
5/10.