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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are legendary collaborators. With movies spanning historic epics and Westerns to biopics and a comedy, there’s rather a lot to take pleasure in. Starting with Gangs of New York in 2002, the director-actor duo have made six motion pictures with one another since.

But you may must be fast to catch one among their well-known movies earlier than it departs Amazon Prime. Shutter Island, a Fifties crime drama and thriller, is coming off the platform after Friday, May 7. In the thriller, Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio), a detective and World War 2 veteran haunted by his previous, and his accomplice Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) examine the disappearance of a affected person at a psychological establishment.

Teddy and Chuck journey to the titular Shutter Island, the distant location the place Ashecliffe Hospital is sequestered.

The detectives race to seek out the affected person, Rachel Solando, a lady who killed her three kids, who has gone lacking underneath mysterious circumstances. And to prime it off, a hurricane is on the best way.

They conflict with uncooperative staffers and circumstances turn out to be more and more unusual as they start to uncover a conspiracy.

Teddy should additionally wrestle along with his traumatic previous. Visions of his spouse, Dolores (Michelle Williams), who died in a home hearth, mix into haunting recollections of World War 2, particularly flashbacks of the liberation of Dachau focus camp.

Shutter Island was a field workplace hit worldwide and acquired typically optimistic critiques. Whilst this Scorsese-DiCaprio matchup is not as revered The Departed or The Wolf of Wall Street, it nonetheless makes for an exciting watch.

The film continues to be rated “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes with a 69% approval rating from critics and 77% from common viewers.

“It may not rank with Scorsese’s best work, but Shutter Island’s gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained,” notes Rotten Tomatoes’ critics consensus.

Reviews of Shutter Island

“An exquisitely crafted potboiler offering up two and a quarter hours of thrills, chills and Leonardo DiCaprio freaking out in a nuthouse during a hurricane,” wrote The New York Post.

“It’s enjoyable, it’s weird, it’s dark, it’s thought-provoking, and the performances are great,” wrote Horror Movie Talk.

An viewers member on IMDb wrote: “While a tiny bit slow at times, this film is absolutely masterful! While a lot of people praise the ending (rightfully so), not a lot of people praise the build up to it. The film hooks you almost instantly and never lets go. It has you guessing all the way through until the tragic ending. A great film! One of the best!”

Another dubbed it “one of the best movies I’ve ever seen”.

Other Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio movies

• Gangs of New York (2002)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Departed (2006)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Shutter Island is out there to look at on Amazon Prime Video till May 7.