Movie Review: Shutter Island  By    |   Sunday, February 21,
2010 Filed under: Film Tags: , , ,  Martin Scorsese's latest
experiment with genre film is a dark, gasping production full of
art and vision. He makes it clear that he is a genre outsider in
all the right ways, eschewing tired and aversive horror
conventions, and he fully demonstrates his skill at making a
story his own. By taking a fresh road into familiar thematic
territory, Marty creates a film that succeeds in far more ways
than it fails.  Teddy (Leonardo DiCaprio), a US Marshal, travels
by boat to Shutter Island, an isolated penitentiary for the
criminally insane. He and his partner, Chuck (Mark Ruffalo), are
assigned with tracking down an escaped inmate, whose
disappearance is completely inexplicable. They begin their
investigation under the threat of an oncoming storm, which
eventually traps them on the island with the dangerous prison
population, and the staff, and each other. The stressful
surroundings seem to spark some psychological backl