Shutter Island |  | Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  233 reviews
Sales Rank: 200
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 138 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 097363534143
UPC: 097363534143
EAN: 0097363534143
ASIN: B001GCUO5M
Theatrical Release Date: October 2, 2009
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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"Academy Award® winning director Martin Scorsese once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that critics say “sizzles
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Martin Scorsese puts Leonardo DiCaprio through the wringer again in Shutter Island, a gothic adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel. Leo's character, a Federal Marshal named Teddy Daniels, is first seen vomiting and jittery aboard a ferry; he and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) are being taken across the water to investigate an escape from a prison for the criminally insane, located on a forbidding rock called Shutter Island. From the first, Scorsese treats the place as though it were Skull Island in King Kong, worthy of ominous music cues and portentous camera angles. This might not be an easy assignment for the sweaty, anxious Daniels, who is haunted by his memories of German concentration camps and the loss of his wife (Michelle Williams, appearing in ghostly hallucinations). The audience will likely feel just as unnerved as Daniels, given the destabilizing nature of Robert Richardson's swooping cinematography and Thelma Schoonmaker's crazy-making editing scheme (it feels as though fractions of seconds have been removed from the timing of simple conversations, giving the movie a strung-out edginess--it's like watching Ray Liotta's cocaine meltdown sequence from GoodFellas for 138 minutes). Ben Kingsley and Max von Sydow are staff psychiatrists, suspiciously eager to talk about lobotomies, and Ted Levine and Patricia Clarkson appear for small but potent turns. Scorsese appears to be "doing a genre picture" here, borrowing happily from influences such as Val Lewton and Samuel Fuller, and the film has a resultingly put-on atmosphere: a great deal of old-dark-house Sturm und Drang whipped up in service of a gimmicky little premise. The fade-out achieves some measure of real eeriness, and the whole shebang is certainly a kicky night out at the movies--if you can shake the sense that a talented filmmaker is working a couple of rungs beneath his level. --Robert Horton
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 Shutter Inland September 5, 2010
elizabeth parrish
Good movie, surpring ending I enjoy it! Keep you on the want to know what would happen next.
Shutter Island August 31, 2010
Linda Clinger (Freedom, WY, US)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Shutter Island is a mystery thriller with not only a twist ending but a twist to the twist.
 Action Suspence August 31, 2010
Leon W. Morgan (Nixa, MO)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A suspenceful movie you might not catch the clues to the truth until the end.
Shutter Island August 30, 2010
asenji6 (Levittown, PA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Leonard DiCaprio was great, the movie is a great suspense movie which keeps you going to the end and the price was just great.
A moving experience August 28, 2010
Robert Mason (Australia)
Many people will find Shutter Island perplexing and dissatisfying, because the plot structure breaks down in the middle of the film, so you should not go to it with normal expectations of plot and entertainment. It is an exploration into mental illness, and makes the attempt to tackle this from the interior perspective of a deeply troubled shitzophrenic, taking you on their journey and tracking the impact of the illness as medication wears off and delusions and fantasies become more intense. I remember someone once telling me about a similar situation, that these types of mental illness render the sufferer unable to create a cohesive explanation of their life story, and this is masterfully depicted here. For those who have lived with this kind of illness, the film will be fascinating, wonderful, deeply moving and, given its intelligence, its closing question will leave you troubled. Few films have challenged me to this degree (one thinks of Eyes Wide Shut, for example).
It's a pleasure, also, that Martin Scorsese has moved beyond the awful bad language and mundane crime plots of his recent ventures to apply his immense talents to such a worthwhile field. The film has no swearing or sex, but it is definitely for adults only.
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