Shutter Island

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Click here to show this review. Scorsese moves away at what he usually creates on screen, and focusses more towards a dark grisly thriller with mystery written all over it. The best part of Shutter Island is he takes the film in a direction where you never thought he would go. In the trailer, and from billboards, you think the movie is about the one thing, the criminal investigation. However, the movie goes beneath that idea and focusses on something deeper and more personal. You think it's about one thing, but instead the film tricks you (Scorsese brilliantly tricks you) that the film is actually about something else. Scorsese's ingenious magic in which he confuses us with what the story actually is, and ultimately goes in a direction that nobody thought he would've gone towards. Shutter Island is a mystery, and is exactly what the film industry needs right now. A film that doesn't go over our heads in waves, and instead provokes us to think and it's directed by a filmmaker who can master anything. Shutter Island will shut you down and whirl you into the world of a crazy person. Leo's best performance.