Shutter Island

I waited over a YEAR to see this movie! I think it was March or April of 2009 that I first saw the previews for this movie, and I bounced in my seat saying, "oh oh oh! I HAVE to see that." Then, I found out it didn't even come out in theatres for A YEAR! A YEAR! How DUMB! Just dumb! The suspense was killing me! I was dying of curiousity. The movie came out, it got mixed reviews, my interst was still peaked, but I didn't get to make it. Thanks to Netflix I finally got to watch it. I wasn't impressed. I think I was expecting a different plot.

The previews were very deciving to what was actually going to happen, which is how it should be. BUT I WANTED it to be about the previews! I wanted it to play out perfectly in my head the way I thought it would and it didn't.

There are some good things to this movie. First, I liked the acting, and the plot wasn't HORRBILE, it just wasn't what I wanted. I wanted more terror. Think horror movie in an insane asylum! Instead, what I got was a not so greatly written psychological thriller. Throught the movie I was on my toes wondering what would be happening next, because they honestly gave NO clues! Then the ending! Oh my the ending! What is the truth? Is he crazy? Or are they only trying to make him THINK he is crazy? It is up to you to decide.

Experts Says: 3.5 Stars, disappointing yet thrilling

Blindness

There is an epidemic of "white" blindness and it seems everyone is being infected except for one, the Doctor's wife (Moore). All blind persons are thrown into a quarantine building with 3 wards in order to minimize infection. The Doctor (Ruffalo) becomes the spokes person for the ward 1. Ward 3 seeks selfish intentions and takes over the entire facility threatening to not feed the other wards unless they offer something of value or their women.


Moore guides Ward 1 throughout the entire process and helps them cope and deal with their blindness. She tries to keep everything civilized and still maintain her marriage. In the end is their bond strong enough to last? Does the Ward 3 eventually dominate or do they self destruct?

I get that the blindness can wear-off. I am okay excepting that. What pisses me off the most, is that they DO NOT explain HOW they are going blind. In the movie they make it seem like you are infected from someone who is infected. So if the first blind man (Iseya) comes into contact with me, I then become blind along with anyone who has had contact with me, or Iseya. BUT HOW? They could have at least explained HOW Iseya came to be the FIRST blind person. A chemical exposure that is then passed through breath to others? I don't know, but I wish they would have explained it...

Props to the writers. This movie definitely plays off the fears of the World or at least my personal fears. I couldn't imagine loosing my sight. It would be an awful feeling of loneliness. I don't even know how I would begin to handle being surrounded by blind people, no one to help me or guide me. Good acting, I believed they were blind and great job at portraying what is greatly possible of happening. This movie reminds me a TAD bit of quarantine, but 100 times better.

Expert Says: 3 Stars, plays on fear, interesting.