Overrated !

Rating: 5/10 (21 March 2011)

I love Leo, I really do ! And I also love Marty but this film however was a disappointment.
Leo is a Marshall trying to investigate the disappearance of a mentally ill patient on "Shutter Island" which is where most mentally ill patients are being treated by doctors. He comes to the island with his partner and keeps on investigating and investigating until he discovers that there is No patient missing, He's not actually a Marshall or at least not anymore, his partner is in fact his psychiatric and he is a patient on the island which is just as crazy as King George III.
OK, I know the ending is supposed to be a Shock ! and this movie was supposed to be great and we weren't supposed to see it coming but this movie wasn't "entertaining" because of the Plot holes and the lacking of explanations, when the film ended I felt I had more Questions left unanswered than more Questions answered. I didn't feel fulfilled, my curiosity wasn't satisfied !
Why ? Why would the doctors try so hard on helping Leo ? And if they were that concerned wouldn't it be easier if they tried to put him in more realistic grounds e.i show him pictures of his previous life and his dead family ? Perhaps brought an old friend over to talk to him, tried to pull him out of the complete state of denial and Schizophrenia that he is in, instead of feeding it more by playing that little drama with him ? How was that supposed to help him ? Apparently their method didn't work because at the end he continued to reject the truth of himself and deny his crime anyway and even a bigger Question why did Leo was put in a Mentally ill institution in the first place ? He killed his wife wasn't he supposed to be put in jail for that ? Putting him on an island filled with mad patients and even madder doctors is guaranteed to drive a sane man crazy ! Yet alone a man who just killed his wife for drowning their kids.
I think it would've made more sense if Leo was an actual Marshall who was sane and who came to investigate the disappearance of a patient and then undercover a secret criminal/inhuman/illegal you name it act towards the patient on the island. Maybe the ending wouldn't have been as SHOCKING but the story would've actually made sense and it would've been more realistic/likable etc...
Skip this movie, Watch The Departed or Gangs of New York these are actually better films that are less depressing and more realistic and if you like those thriller movies I would recommend you watch the sixth Sense since its a great film and there aren't as many plot holes.