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Just watched the movie 'Shutter Island
'. From the trailer itself you can almost find out the storyline - kinda made the movie predictable. But, I watched it anyway to know for sure what was it about. It was about a cop sent to an assylum [located in a 'spooky' island] to investigate a missing prisoner (or should i say "patient", according to Ben Kingsley's character). Then the story gets into a "insane or not insane" conflict very much similar to the movie 'A Beautiful Mind
', where the protagonist is confused whether he's really doing stuff or just making it up (hallucinations). Well, I'm not giving off spoilers, watch it if you're really curious.The assylum of the island reminds me of Arkahm Assylum from the Batman. I even wondered if could find Joker there *LOL* ~ just kidding! Well, the place was freaky alright, also reminded of one of my nightmares. If I were the cop (Leonardo Dicaprio), I'd pass if I were assigned to investigate there. However, there were scenes that made the place look normal. Anyway, I find the acting good. Leo was awesome in his drama. Mark Ruffalo almost fooled me. Ben Kingsley was 'mysteriously' good. I like the flash backs and the confusion It made me think and speculate; in other words, "brain exercise".The only bad thing about the movie [in my opinion] is the annoying old style background music. Makes me wanna replace it with a mysterious-feel sound.The story was quite predictable but it gives you a little curiousity... just a little
The movie didn't wowed me. To me it was just OK - a little mediocre. it was like one of those mystery films that can make you think. But honestly, it needs something more... maybe a bit of more action. Maybe it's just me 'coz I'm a sucker for action stuff.
I give it
6.5/10
. Before seeing it, I had a feeling it would be similar to 
. but actually, it's a little different but the concept is quite similar. Both movies have aliens as the "victims" and the humans as the "bad people", and both have a human as hero for the aliens. The obvious difference is that 
has more scenes that you could literaly throw up once you see 'em ~ gorey, bloody.. ewww.. you know what I mean when you get to see it. Similarly to Avatar, you'll feel sorry for the "prawns" [or aliens]. This movie made me forget the eye-candy on Avatar O_O..
. It was the 1st time i saw an anime version of the caped crusader and i have to say it was pretty nice. for some die hard DC fans, this might not amuse them 'coz it has alot of anime-ish feel; some folks might not want to see a japanese-style batman, 'coz.. let's face it, batman is not japanese (he's an American assuming Gotham is in the U.S.) but despite the japanese look, i still liked it 'coz Kevin Conroy (the guy who's been the voice of batman for over 15 years) voiced him and the effects were awesome. maybe i just like it because i like both worlds - the anime and the american cartoons lol.
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