Review of Shutter

Shutter (I) (2008)
7/10
A misunderstood film
22 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I didn't find this movie to be rotten like some critics made it out to be. It's not a scary movie (how many scary movies are actually scary?) I see it as a tale about a wife finding that her husband and his friends are much worse than she could have imagined. (I guess that is the real horror that is being presented.) Rachel Taylor's role as the good, solid recently married wife would have been a demanding one and she played it well. Joshua Jackson's part as the husband who has dirty secrets that he doesn't feel guilty about,("it seemed like a good idea") didn't require him to do much; but he was able to convey a psychopath's detatchment in a convincing way. ( You wonder why after marrying such a gorgeous, perfect woman he doesn't seem to love her and why there isn't much chemistry between them.) I don't think that it's an especially good movie though,the ending is a bit corny; and the way that the story unfolds is too slow; I think that the film could have been better edited, all in all.
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