Shutter Island (2010) movie poster

Shutter Island (2010)

"Someone is missing."
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👍 89%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 66%
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Runtime
2h 18m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.2/10 (25,535 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
69%
Metacritic
63

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels · 77% avg
Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule · 75% avg
Ben Kingsley as Dr. Cawley · 72% avg
Max von Sydow as Dr. Naehring · 78% avg
Michelle Williams as Dolores · 72% avg
Emily Mortimer as Rachel 1 · 73% avg
Patricia Clarkson as Rachel 2 · 72% avg
Jackie Earle Haley as George Noyce · 69% avg

Is Shutter Island good?

Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 66%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#216 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#8 / 238 · 2010
Rank among its director's films
#4 / 22 · Martin Scorsese

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Shutter Island is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Set in 1954, the film follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule as they investigate the disappearance of a patient from Ashecliffe Hospital, a facility for the criminally insane located on a remote island in Boston Harbor.

As a hurricane traps them on the island, Daniels begins to uncover what he believes is a sinister conspiracy involving illegal experiments on patients, while his own grip on reality becomes increasingly tenuous. Based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel, the film marked the fourth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio. The film's twist ending became a major topic of discussion and repeated viewings, as viewers searched for the carefully planted clues throughout the narrative.

Scorsese employed an unusually heightened visual style, drawing from classic film noir and 1950s horror cinema to create a persistently unsettling atmosphere. The film's ending, deliberately ambiguous about the nature of its protagonist's reality, continues to inspire debate among audiences years after its release.

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In Shutter Island (2010), Chuck struggles to remove his holster in the opening scene, suggesting he has his inexperience with handling fire arms.
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In “Shutter Island” (2010), inmate Bridget Kearns asks for a glass of water. When she “drinks” it, there is no cup in her hand
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In Shutter Island (2010), every time Leonardo DiCaprio smokes he gets his cigarettes lit by someone else (explanation in comments)
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