Shutter Island

I was so disappointed with this movie - ESPECIALLY for being a Martin Scorsese film (The Departed, Casino, Goodfellas, The Aviator! Heeelllloooooo!? Amazing movies) with great actors - but apparently Nick and I are the ONLY ones that thought this movie suuuuuuuuucked.

Great actors BUT ehhh acting - more like ehhh script I should say. Leo is a great actor I think, some of the lines are like "Really. really?"
Horrible editing - Arms on top of his head, next shot its on the cell bars. Tie is in the car gas tank, next shot its in his hands, next shot back in the gas tank. etc
Story line - ummmm I think we've seen this one before.

If this was supposed to be some sort of mind game, a "get in your head" movie, I didn't get it. Well actually I was trying to figure out if this was a joke or a scary movie so I guess that was the only mind game I experienced. Definitely wasn't a mind f*ck like The Shining, Sixth Sense, Identity, Jacob's Ladder, Vanilla Sky, The Game, Momento, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club or any great Hitchcock film or the Twilight Zone series... I could go on. I feel inundated with these "Odd story! Odd things are happening?! Wait a minute, it's just all in their head!" If I wanted to watch crazy I'd stare in the mirror...

I don't even think a movie has to be "good" to get into your head - i.e. Blair Witch Project. The hype, people's belief it was reality, the acting, the last scene... not an Oscar winner but a movie people still talk about as if it was an event.

Yes, I did think this was going to be a thriller/scary movie... the ONLY times I was startled: Nick sneezed, extra loud lighting of matches, gunshot in the end.

Can we stop making movies out of books? Can we come up with an ORIGINAL IDEA for once?

My "Chi" Rating (1 of 5):

... The one Chi was for the guards name being McPherson... that is all