Complicated and long

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2012)

Another Dennis Lehane novel adapted after the success of Clint Eastwood's Mystic River and Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone.
Martin Scorcese is the director of Shutter Island and it is much more complicated than the two previous Lehane stories. Two federal marshals, Teddy Daniels(Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule(Mark Ruffalo) are sent to a mental hospital in Boston in 1954 to solve the disappearance of Rachel Solando, who was sentenced there for drowning her children.
A storm causes the two investigators to stay on the island longer then expected. The head shrink, Dr. Cawley(Ben Kingsley) refuses to hand over the missing woman's medical records. Daniels begins having visions of his dead wife who was killed by an arsonist's fire. She tells him that Solando and her killer are both on Shutter Island. The staff find Solando and the cops hear of strange medical experiments being performed at an abandoned lighthouse.
More plot twists involving mind control are revealed and though a little too long for me, Shutter Island works.