It will be interesting to see how SHUTTER ISLAND works as a movie. I’ve read the novel it’s based on by Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River”), and it’s suspenseful and intriguing… but… I think the finish is a problem. It might work better on the big screen, but if people don’t dig it, it’ll be a problem. It’s one of those endings that makes or breaks the entire experience…
Here’s how the plot breaks down: It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He’s been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy’s shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals “escape” in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
Yahoo has just premiered the first official poster for the Martin Scorsese picture, complete with lame tagline “Someone is missing”. Yeah, so? I’m more impressed by the fantastic trailer, which you can revisit HERE.
SHUTTER ISLAND stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams (pictured below), Ben Kingsley, Elias Koteas, Max Von Sydow, and Jackie Earle Haley, who only plays crazy people it would seem. The flick comes out this October.