Saw it opening night and loved it. Great acting, great scenery. The camera work is amazing – it’s worth paying to see it in the theater to take it all in. Scorsese uses a particular motif – dream scenes filled with falling paper, leaves, or ash – to tremendous effect.
The previews make Shutter Island look like a horror movie. It has some horror elements, with people jumping out of the dark and such, but it’s really a psychothriller with plenty of action and a hurricane that provides the dramatic backdrop.
P.S. – If you haven’t seen the movie or read the book then whatever you do don’t read the Wikipedia entry. Does Wikipedia not do spoiler alerts?
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No, they don’t. They’ll even chide people for even suggesting spoiler alerts.
If I hadn’t already seen the movie I would have been PO’ed – they give away the ending in the first sentence of the third paragraph.
Once upon a time wikipedia used spoiler alerts, but then it became a big issue about how long they should stay up for(international releases, DVD etc.), which articles really needed them, etc. So in the end they just got rid of them entirely.