I want two brain cells of my life back.

I just saw this movie, and it was by far THE DUMBEST thing I have ever seen. It was so bad that I felt that I lost brain cells. I'm gonna have to watch a few Kurosawa films to recover.

Earth to directors: if you want to pull off a twist, it helps to not actually build it using the exact same set up as previous mind benders. If you've seen both Wicker Mans, Angel Heart, Jacob's Ladder and Hitchcock films, then you already know inside of 20 minutes what Shutter Island's twist is going to be because the movie mirrors these films to the point of plagiarism. You have:

1) An investigation being taken place on a super mysterious island, involving a missing person, with the implication that it's hard to get to or escape from. (Wickerman)

2) Everyone on the island toys with the investigator about the missing person's whereabouts. (Wickerman)

3) The missing person never existed (or was alive the entire time). (Wickerman)

4) Protagonist haunted by images of a drowned girl. (Wickerman remake)

5) Protagonist is grieved over death of loved one (Jacob's Ladder) or haunted by the deaths of those he couldn't save (Wickerman remake, Vertigo).

6) Protagonist is a veteran of a major war (Jacob's Ladder, Angel Heart)

7) Protagonist suffers from PTSD flashbacks of the war he served in (Jacob's Ladder, Angel Heart)

8) The "conspiracy" fake out, where we learn that the "mystery" is a conspiracy, only to turn out to have never happened at all. (Jacob's Ladder)

9) The body double stand in. (Vertigo)

10) Constant bizarre, hallucinatory flashbacks or dreams hinting at psychosis. (Angel Heart, Jacob's Ladder)

11) Car is blown up. (Angel Heart)

It's like Martin Scorsese wanted to make the ultimate mind bender and went, "Hey, if I just stitch together the plot points from the greatest and coolest mind benders ever made, it'll be the one to beat them all. Hell, it'll make Mulholland Drive look like a Sesame Street episode!"

There's also zero suspense in this film, and that over-the-top, bombastic score in the beginning is laughably bad.