Shutter Island

When I were younger, the first movies I were exposed to, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio were Titanic and Romeo + Juliet. It’s due to those two movies, that I think my preconceived notion of him developed. For years and years and years after this preconceived notion manifested, I could not watch a movie with DiCaprio in it and think his acting good… Until today.


Yes, today marks a momentous occasion, the day I can finally love some of his acting (Gangs of New York being the only exception). I introduce you to Shutter Island, an upcoming thriller film, directed and produced by Martin Scorsese who also worked with DiCaprio on Gangs of New York (See a pattern?). Other actors include: Mark Ruffalo (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Collateral, Just Like Heaven), Ben Kingsley (Ghandi, Anne Frank: The Whole Story, Lucky Number Slevin) and Michelle Williams (Imaginary Heroes, Brokeback Mountain, Deception)

The film itself revolves around a Massachusetts island set in 1954, in a hospital for the criminally insane (an asylum), where a patient has gone missing, DiCaprio plays the part of the films protagonist, the first of two U.S Marshals investigating the disappearance. On a seperate note, this is a film I cannot wait to see in cinemas (Mid-February 2010 realease), and will probably go and see it AT the cinema. Judging from the trailer, I recommend it