shutter island

i've never understood all the praise for martin scorsese. i have seen many of his movies and dont really care that much for most of them. well, i finally found one i rather liked. shutter island is about a detective who comes aboard an island mental ward in order to help with the disappearance of one of the residents. the mood is created well, and dicaprio does a good job of drawing us into the mystery. we watch as he finds that some of the stories dont quite add up and he begins to piece together the clues. its a pretty good little yarn, but the twists and turns along the way were pretty easy for me to see coming. i dont know if that was true for everyone who saw it, but this was one of the rare times where i figured it out really early in the movie. most times i just let the movie take me away, but i kind of figured it out months ago from the first previews they showed for the movie. having not read anything about it, i knew what the twists were before i even started the film (and thats not due to the usual reading of reviews or anything!) so maybe the problem i had with the film wasnt the film at all, but was in the marketing giving away too much. anyway, all considered, its a pretty good flick and worth watching. i've heard that its better the second time through, but i didnt have time to watch it again, it was only a rental!