Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them.īut nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. They say it's the journey, not the destination, and while I wasn't floored by where Lehane, Scorsese and screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis decided to take us, I appreciated the ambition of the journey.U.S.
Your response probably depends on your willingness to just go with the film whether you already see where it's going or not. Better or worse? Discuss.)īut the maybe game, like resistance to The Borg, is futile.įilms like "Shutter Island" are fascinating because you get such strong polar reactions. (Then again, we'd probably get Brad Pitt in the lead role instead of DiCaprio. Or maybe if David Fincher ("Seven," "Fight Club") had directed the film, as he was meant to at one point, the expectations would be different. Maybe if it had a little bit more of the gritty old-school flavor of Scorsese's older films, "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets," the film wouldn't seem so much like an indie character piece in blockbuster clothing. "Shutter Island" just comes off as a stretch. and even Bar Harbor, Maine.)īased on the narrative, I can see how big names would be drawn to it - so many juicy character roles for the actors, so many ways for a director known for his love of film history to try his hand at a mesh of Hitchcock thrills and B-movie horror. (Fun fact for locals: Scenes were shot all over the area, including Ipswich, Taunton, Hull, Sharon, Dedham, the Medfield State Hospital in Medfield, Mass. marshals investigating the disappearance of a patient from a mental hospital for the criminally insane on an island in Boston Harbor. I have not read Dennis Lehane's ("Mystic River," "Gone, Baby, Gone") novel "Shutter Island" but from what I understand the film is faithful to the story - about two U.S. Sharing screen space are Sir Ben Kingsley my boy Max von Sydow Mark Ruffalo Emily Mortimer the great Jackie Earle Haley Ted Levine of "The Silence of the Lambs" - the only legit connection to "Lambs," and he's fantastic - Patricia Clarkson Elias Koteas and Michelle Williams, using an even more, uh, "creative" accent.
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