Review: Shutter Island

Review: Shutter Island

Rating: *1/2

Nonna's Rating: $

Rotten Tomatoes: 67%

What Was Wrong With This Movie:

1. Much too long for the story -- the first 30 minutes could have been 5.
2. Pacing too slow throughout.
3. I knew what was going on from the first scene -- Martin, please watch. Sixth Sense again.
4. Leonardo still looks like he could be in Growing Pains, a little boy dressed up in his father's overcoat and fedora -- he's good, but he's no Robert DeNiro.
5. Mark Ruffalo is underused.
6. Too much noise--and the music was embarrassingly overwrought -- "OK, everybody get tense. There's something creepy about to happen."
7. It's a shaggy dog story.

What Was Right With This Movie:

1. Ben Kingsley and Max Von Sydow have classy accents and provide some convincing red herrings
2. Patricia Clarkson, Michelle Williams, and Jackie Earle Haley each deliver strong, if brief, performances

Rent One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Nonna's Ratings:

$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening price
$$$= Worth paying the Matinee price
$$= Worth a rental
$ = Wait for cable
# = Skip it