Shutter Island

Wow, what a film!!

This one had everything that the recently reviewed films all lacked in varying degrees. It is a Hitchcock style psychological thriller set in a highly atmospheric location - a remote asylum for the criminally insane - in mid fifties America and thus no easy get outs like mobile phones or the internet. It has a superb plot which twists and turns, yet has one main coherent theme which has you deep in thought, even then the ending gives scope for different interpretations of the outcome - there is a brooding sense of mystery and conspiracy - it is superbly well acted by Leonardo DiCaprio and others - it has excellent, credible characters, all well developed throughout the film - it is beautifully well filmed and it veritably thunders along. Fair enough, it isn't filmed in 3D, but that is a gimmick that would just look silly in this film.

What really wins it for me is the way it puts you inside the head of someone suffering from psychotic delusions - not in a mocking or comic way, but in a way that really puts you in total sympathy with the character - no matter what their crime - and any person in the real world unlucky enough to be suffering in this way.

Undoubtedly a tour de force of the highest magnitude - I urge anyone reading this blogsite to drop whatever it is they are doing and get to see this film as soon as they possibly can.