Shutter Island

...directed by Martin Scorsese and with a number of well known actors and actresses, e.g. Leonardo di Caprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson etc.

The story circles around US Marschal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo di Caprio) who is assigned to investigate a disappearance of a patient at the Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital, not an ordinary hospital but an institution for patients regarded as being very dangerous, having committed different kinds of serious crimes, often murders.
When he arrives with his partner Churck (Mark Ruffalo), he find the island very well protected and it's as if the guards are surveilling every step they take.
He gets to meet one of the responsible doctors, Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley) when arriving and later on the other doctor, in charge of the treatments, Dr. Naehring (Max von Sydow).
However, Daniels suspects that the treatment is not following ordinary standards but on the contrary that it's both unethical and illegal and he tries to find out who is the main responsible for this.
He suspects - not least - Dr. Naehring as he thinks being a former nazi officer/doctor and of course he has brought his methods of 'treating' people to this institution, Daniel thinks.
As being an old officer himself, surving during World War II, he even thinks he has met this doctor before, during the war.
Besides this he has his own reasons for coming to the island as he's looking for the man who he thinks killed his wife and children.

This is a very well directed story and there's nothing particularly bad about the mise en scène or the acting but almost immediately one understand that a lot of the things happening on the spot - at the hospital, including flash backs depicting the main characters backround story, including the death of his wife and children - is something going on in his head. The question is whether it' s going on in Daniels head or....?
The end didn't at all surprise us but, as I wrote, the story was told in a professional and rapid way, moving forth and back in time, in order to make the viewers confused.

In this film we see Max von Sydow once more acting a somewhat 'mysterious' and suspect individual with a possible nazi background.
Last time I saw him in a film, he also acted a doctor (not nazi however) and that was in Oscar et la dame rose.

Scorsese also uses a woman called Rachel, somewhat resembling Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Something totally deliberate and therefore a bit unimaginative.