Shutter Island

It seems that people either love or hate this movie. Personally, I enjoyed every moment. From the eerie mad house for the criminally insane to the washed-out colour palette, I thought director Martin Scorsese managed to create the perfect mood for a mystery thriller about a missing psych patient.

Thanks to a series of strange hallucinatory flashbacks, an almighty hurricane and a whole bunch of mad people running amok, you’ll be biting down on the edge of your popcorn box before you can say, “boo”. And that’s just the beginning of this horror-house ride.

One can over-intellectualise whether Scorsese’s venture into a new genre works. Frankly, if it gives me the edge-of-my-seat thrill I’m looking for it’s a success in my book. Go see it before you read too much of the debate.

Rating: 4 outta 5.