Shutter Island
I had high hopes for Shutter Island. The prospect of director Martin Scorsese working on a horror/thriller was very exciting since I love his remake of Cape Fear from 1991. Unfortunately this movie just didn't grab me the way other thrillers have in the past.
The film is drenched in foreboding atmosphere and music which sets the stage for a long, slow build up. The problem I had was that the pacing of Shutter Island is so long and so slow that I began to lose interest after the first hour. In order to fill all of this time, the script drops hint after hint so that when the truth is finally revealed I had a pretty good idea of what was going on. That's fine, I enjoy trying to unravel thrillers, but here the reveal itself is just as long and drawn out as the rest of the film. There is so much talent on display in Shutter Island, from the production design to the direction and the acting, but it just doesn't come together. 3/5
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