Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tunenut (A) on February 25, 2010 at 17:05:43

In Reply to: RE: Shutter Island posted by Prisoners on February 20, 2010 at 11:21:21

First off, the music is just great. Robbie Robertson picked out a bunch of modern classical pieces and it's brilliant music.

The atmosphere likewise is almost perfect. The green island, the menace seeming to seep out of every damp leaf.

But the story itself kind of fell to pieces for me. At first, it was fine, there were all these strange mysteries and strange events, memories and dreams. As long as the sense of mystery exists, I could go with the rather melodramatic DiCaprio and his rather distracting "Boston" accent. But then about 1/2 way through I sort of thought it might be going in a direction and sure enough, it went right in that direction and everything was tied up in a ribbon that fell flat. Maybe they just could have retained the ambiguity.

Well, it's a long movie, over 2 hours, and the last hour didn't do much for me.