Respond/React: Shutter Island
"Shutter Island" is a well made film that I thought should have been at least a half an hour shorter. Of course, it's also the kind of film that I wouldn't recommend people listen to my opinion because I often enjoy these films less (especially after the first viewing) than most other people.
This is one of the rare occasions in which I agree with Entertainment Weekly. I thought Owen Gleiberman hit the nail on the head with a lot of his complaints. I thought the very end was great but the middle and the entire Nazi subplot were unnecessary and seemed like a heavy-handed attempt to add some sort of message or meaning to what should have been a tighter pulp movie.
I'd write more but this is really a case in which I think my personal tastes and personality affected my viewing more than usual.
