REVIEW - Shutter Island

Was it going to be all too obvious? Was it going to be full of bangs, screams and lunges just for their shock value? Has the meat already been served up in the trailers? Was Gareth going to scream and grab my hand? These were my misgivings going in to seeing Shutter Island.

It turns out none of those things happened. However, that didn't make it a good movie. It was well made, perhaps a little drawn out, at 2 hours 18 minutes, but in the end, unsatisfying.

The movie's all about the twists, so the trailers and the first 2 hours just lay the foundation for the big one. Trouble is, when it happened, neither of us enjoyed the way it turned.

And so much for it verging on being a horror movie. We only jumped once during the 2+ hours, and that was at a particularly loud gunshot.

Shame.