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Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Loony Bin

I really enjoyed Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese's fourth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie was very slow paced, true, but it was never boring and it never seemed to drag on at all. The story was interesting, dark and creepy, and an aura of eeriness surrounded the wards, the island, the lighthouse, and everything else. As it's usually the case, DiCaprio's performance was excellent, and Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Max von Sydow do a great job in their supporting roles.

The only negative factor in this equation was that I was fairly sure how things were going to turn out just by watching the preview. For better or worse, I have seen a lot of movies, and I saw this twist coming even before I stepped into the theater. That was definitely disappointing, but by no means invalidated the film. However, I wish things had been different. Still, Shutter Island was very enjoyable, and I recommend it to everyone who is in the mood for a creepy psychological mystery. You could certainly do much worse than this!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Habrá que verla, pues. En algún sitio alguien la definido como si fuera la The Shining en la filmografía de Scorsese.

Aunque cansa un poco ya el binomio Scorsese-DiCaprio, la verdad.

Mario Alba said...

¿El The Shining de Scorsese por calidad, por temática, o por comercialidad? Interesante comparación...