Movie Review: Shutter Island

Books being adapted to movies are very common these days, people can find new releases every, or almost every week, but however, by what I've seen, there are very few book adoptions that go in ways that people probably want them to go, adoptions such as the 'Harry Potter' books, or the 'Jurassic Park' books, those books impressed many people, and when they where adapted to movies, they impressed even more people, but now my question is, does 'Shutter Island' match the quality of those adoptions who impressed many, or was it a disappointment?


Shutter Island starts off as a story about two US Marshalls named Teddy Denials, and Chuck Aule, who both go to an island, which is also a mental facility, in order to investigate the disappearance of a dangerous mental patient, and they have to find her, the story was quite entertaining, but another interesting fact about the movie is that the story shifts into a more character-driven, and psychological story about Teddy Denials, and of course at some points it leads to confusion in the story it's self, but not the type of confusion that really has nothing to do in the story, or that just came out randomly, it's the type of confusion that I enjoy in movies, the type of confusion that fits in the story and that is used to make the story more entertaining.

The movie is considered as a thriller, so obviously there where allot of thrills in the movie that honestly, did not disappoint, but the story it's self does has some disappointing parts, such as some slow, and boring scenes, but unfortionetly, the movie can't be done without them, also at the near-end of the movie, there was allot of crying going on, which honestly gave that scene a sope-operah type of feeling, which to me, are extremely dull and boring.

There were also some mediocre or mixed acting performances which obviously did not help with the movie's first few minor problems, actors such as Max Von Sydo, who honestly just spoke too slow for anyone to follow without getting bored when he talks, Ted Levine was just way too happy in his performance as the warden, I felt that John Carrall Lynch was too confident in his role, and Bill Kingsely, despite making a much better performance than 'Prince of Persia', I still think that he looked too awake and jittery, but Kingly's acting error was very minor, yet noticeable, but there were some very storing acting performances which made me consider ignoring the minor acting errors, performances such as Leonardo Decaprio's or Elias Koteas' performances perhaps made the acting errors in the movie less noticeable, and more forgettable then they really are.

Despite the errors in this movie, Shutter Island ends up to be a smart and enjoyable book adaption, it's certainly not as good as the Harry Potter movies, or the first Jurassic Park movie, but it's certainly allot better than the 'Percy Jackson' movie, or the first Twilight movie, which by the way is the only Twilight movie I've seen, and I'm not planning to see any more, but the whole point is, Shutter Island does have some errors, but the positives where surly more than the negatives, so I'd say that Shutter Island is an enjoyable movie, but with some un-ignorable errors that really messed up the quality that the movie could have been.

*Movie Rating:-


-Acting(out of 6)= 3
-Story(out of 8)= 6
-Plot(out of 8)= 7
-Actions(out of 6)= 3
-Effects(out of 4)= 4
-Character Developement(out of 8)= 6
*Overall Rating(out of 40)= 29
3 stars

*Rating System:

0- 7= 0 Stars
8- 14= 1 Star
15- 21= 2 Stars
22- 30= 3 Stars
31- 35= 4 Stars
36- 40= 5 Stars