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Directed by Martin Scorsese. Staring big names including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley and John Carroll Lynch. Plot focuses on 2 US Marshalls played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo investigating the disappearance of a patient at a mental hospital called "Shutter Island" in the 1950s.
Starts out with Ruffalo and DiCaprio arriving at Shutter Island on a boat. It's surrounded by water in all directions and the only way to get there is by boat or helicopter. So…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I love the narrative introduction of the movie as a police chase is going on while seeing it through the POV of a police dashcam. Very good way to immediately grab the audience attention. Stars 2 best friend police partners played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as they work a shifts in South Central L.A.
So right off the bat you can tell by the way it's filmed through pov shots periodically through the body cameras and dashboard cameras…
Loved this movie. Takes place in the early 1900s and the way it begins is an interesting way to start the movie. The first 15 minutes there's no dialogue or talking. It shows Daniel Day Lewis digging a well with a pickaxe and dynamite. He accidentally falls down the well and breaks his legs then there's a time jump to a few years ahead and now there's multiple people working on the same well. Daniel Day Lewis creates a winch…
