Shutter Island

Shutter Island is the new movie out this week
starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It is suspenseful in the
same vein as Alfred Hitchcock. Martin Scorsese directs
another film that he can be proud of.
The premise of the movie is a couple of Federal
Marshalls are sent to an island that houses a mental
institution. Supposedly, one of the patients at the
hospital/institution has turned up missing and the
Marshalls are given the task of finding her. The two
head doctors at the hospital are played by Ben Kingsley
and Max Von Sidow, and both are perfect for their
rolls. The ranking Marshall (DiCaprio) has a troubled
past that surfaces again and again while in the asylum
and moviegoers are questioned whether this is real
or just a hallucination. The setting for the movie is 1954
and it takes place on a secluded island off the coast of
Massachusetts. Naturally, it is either dark or always
raining to create the right mood.
The movie made 41 million dollars the first week it was
released, so it is one of the top movies for the moment.
We went to see it at a matinee performance and had good
seats. Critics have been pretty lukewarm toward this movie
but we liked it and probably will purchase it when it comes
out on DVD.