I agree this movie had me looking at my watch and I had to cringe at what was on the screen many times. Marty make another "Taxi Driver" or "Goodfellas" please! Work with Deniro again Leonardo is not a great actor. Sorry.

Good review. Shutter Island is awful, let's face it. Anyone who claims to like this film has to be lying to themselves. The blame lies squarely with Scorcese. It's just a dreadful movie. Absolutely pointless.

I only began to read this review because I was drawn by the use of "Arkham Asylum" on Rottentomatoes. So, okay, you got me. Unfortunately, the review I found disappointed me. Generally, I agree with your opinions, but your grammar and professionalism need desperate work. You're writing for EclipseMagazine, for crying out loud.

Your first paragraph was acceptable, but the review suffered after that.

You wrote:

"I don’t need a million conversations about a missing patient, or have 20 philosophical discussions with Ben Kingsley about the pros and cons of Psychotherapy vs. Psychotropic Drugs, I got the point the first couple of times, let’s move on."

First of all, your second clause does not have a subject. Secondly, the sentence should be punctuated with a semicolon after "Psychotropic Drugs." Instead, you used a comma, and you did it again shortly later when that also should have been either a period or a semicolon.

"My feet told me to walk out, but my brain kept saying relax, it’s a slow build up but the pay off will be worth it."

What your brain, "said," should have been in quotations, and you should have placed a comma after, "build up."

"There is a twist at the end but by the time they got to it, I could care less and part of me was thinking this better not be a double twist or I’ll be really upset, then once the movie ended, I was annoyed that they didn’t do the double twist. I left the theater going what did I just waste 2 hours watching?"

I'm not sure what to do with this first sentence. Comma abuse is not your friend. Okay, to start, you should have inserted a comma between "end" and "but," and then should have written, "I could not have cared less." (You forgot, "not," and did not write in the past participle) Then, you again forgot to put in quotations what you were thinking (you should do so whenever you're switching between description and inner monologue), and after this quoted material you should have again ended the sentence. Cut, "then" and just say, "Once the movie ended, I was annoyed they did not opt for the slightly less conventional double twist." This not only reduces the comma abuses, but it sounds less superficial and extemporaneous. Then, in your final sentence, you again should have quoted the portion you were thinking to yourself. Also, "2" should be "two." You should use numerical format when you're referring to double-or-more digit numbers only, or when you have used several numbers in the paragraph.

Your fourth paragraph was not bad, as you managed to sound a bit more clever and humorous than in the rest, but you switched topics abruptly from DiCaprio to Scorsese. I'll leave the grammatical flaws alone, here, because most of them were recognizably intentional (unlike the others I have chosen to critique).

The fifth paragraph's biggest problem is Batman saturation. Now sure, I have also drawn the same similarities you have between this movie's setting and Arkham Asylum, but you simply spent too much time on it. Even though I share your sentiments, even I would argue that you sound somewhat immature talking about it for a such a substantial portion of your review. As well on another note, you may want to find other inherent criticisms to make besides how much this movie bored you. If you find yourself incessantly bored with Shutter Island, then you are going to have a miserably boring extended career also as a film critic in general … many, many quality movies are as, "boring," as Shutter Island.

Your final paragraph:

"Shutter Island is really all about Director Martin Scorsese and not about the story. It’s about the tone and pacing he sets. If you like movies that are slow, dark, and is striving for a sense of foreboding then this movie is for you."

That first sentence might as well be stricken, because the same could be said of any movie on the face of earth in relation to its director. As for the last sentence, the last two items in your list are essentially the same thing. Finally, after you used a plural subject, you continued to write, "are," early in the sentence, making the later, "is," which you also wrote, both grammatically inconsistent with the subject and also redundant.

And as a side note, if you're going to write sassy retorts to everyone who complains about your review (which is the obnoxiously unoriginal norm these days, so I guess I cannot fault you for that), do not make the same grammatical mistakes you made in your review when doing so. Furthermore, think of something clever or even putatively witty to say now and then. I've heard these kinds of lame comebacks from kids shopping at Build-a-Bear. In essence, add a modicum of maturity, and the requisite professionalism that comes with it, to your work.

Normally, I would not take the time to write all of this, but you're writing for what appears to be a somewhat significant online publication. You need to appreciate that fact.

I just happened to read this review… Judging by what you say I can easily guess you are around 15-18 years old, and a TDK fankid. I winder why Rotten Tomatoes counts this type of crap as "reviews".

This review makes me scared of the generation that is a mere 10 years younger than mine. I guess that the kids that are now 8 years old will have spent virtually their entire life in front of a facebook kind of thing and will make today's 18 year olds look like scientists.