A Review of SHUTTER ISLAND

Shutter Island is quite possibly the most confusing movie I've ever seen. I went to watch it with my father and sisters, and none of us could tell each other what the point of that movie was. I've concluded that there was no point except to mess with the audience's heads.
The movie is about U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule investigating a missing persons case on Shutter Island. Teddy finds strange things and uncovers evil-genius ideas, but nothing is actually as it seems.

No, really, that statement has never been so true. You think you have a grip on the idea, and then the whole movie changes. So you get used to the new twists and turns, and suddenly everything is changed again. It changes so many times, you lose track of the movie because you're trying to absorb what is going on.

So who stars in this horrible attempt at a film? Leonardo DiCaprio plays Teddy Daniels, Mark Ruffalo plays Chuck Aule, Ben Kinglsey plays head psychiatrist Dr. Cawley, and Patricia Clarkson acts as escaped psychiatrist Rachel. To be fair, the acting is pretty good. But no amount of great acting can substitute for a complicated and cluttered plot.

I will give Martin Scorcese some credit for trying to pull this thing off. I mean, the man probably had a good base idea, but throughout the project some ideas must have been misconstrued and some ideas may have been added, so it's really not his fault. I like Martin Scorsese, because he's really good looking for an old man, so I will choose to put the blame for this terrible movie on the rest of the film crew.