No escape from 'Shutter Island' - San Francisco Chronicle

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Our poll software uses a variety of methods to ensure that only votes determined to be valid are tabulated. When this determination cannot be made, we may not process your vote. If Martin Scorsese weren't aware of himself as a great filmmaker, he could never have made a movie as bad as "Shutter Island." The potential was here for some trashy fun, for a punchy, 100-minute edge-of-your-seat thriller. Instead, Scorsese tries to transform Dennis Lehane's novel into an epic psychological investigation. He stuffs the film with heavy-handed art direction and piles on a ludicrously ominous soundtrack. The soundtrack is a constant reminder of the movie's importance and only highlights its unimportance.

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