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Created Feb 27, 2010 06:57AM PST • Edited Feb 27, 2010 06:57AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Perfect 5.0

   Nothing less than a superb. A creative plot will keep you engaged, and a killer climax will knock you to the floor at the end. I didn’t see it coming, yo won’t see it coming, and when it does you’ll shout, “Wow!” That is, if you haven’t read the book already.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   Great acting, especially from Leonardo DiCaprio. He does a perfect job as a hardened, angry, pained detective suffering from passed traumas. Just amazing. Also, convincing psychiatric patients.

5. Male Stars Perfect 5.0

   Bravo.

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

8. Male Costars Perfect 5.0

10. Film

    Really Great 4.5

    A really great film. Martin Scorsese does a great job composing the dark scenes in the heart of Shutter Island’s mental hospital. It was almost torture in theaters to see Leo walking through dark corridors, just waiting to be attacked by an escaped madman. The dialogue was engaging, the music, amazing, and the visuals, striking.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

    Fantastic.

12. Play Really Great 4.5

13. Music Perfect 5.0

    Great, frightening, and riveting.

14. Visuals Really Great 4.5

    Great.

15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 3.3

    Not an overtly gory film, but savage war violence and graphic images of wounds are seen. In depth discussion of heinous crimes are disturbing.

17. Sex Titillating 2.5

18. Violence Savage 4.5

19. Rudeness Profane 3.0

21. Reality

    Surreal 3.0

    Very surreal and dreamlike.

22. Circumstantial Surreal 3.0

23. Biological Surreal 3.0

24. Physical Surreal 3.0