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...novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone), ransacked nearly 2,500 years of murder-mystery tradition - from Oedipus Rex to Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - and was deeply indebted to such early David Fincher films as The Game and Fight Club. The plot, set in the 1950s, is a festival of conspiracies involving Nazis, Soviets, lobotomizers, the CIA and LSD, plus some very crafty lunatics and an oddly convenient hurricane. Packed with word and number puzzles, like a Da Vinci Code with fewer chase scenes, Lehane's story was devised for the page...
...neat impression of Robert De Niro's crazed killer in Cape Fear), who Teddy believes was responsible for Dolores' death by fire. Quizzing the patients, he gets evidence that sounds like death threats: a man (Jackie Earle Haley, indelible in a fleeting role) tells Teddy there's a grand plot closing in on the marshal, that he's "the rat in a maze"; one woman scribbles the urgent word run on his notepad. His partner Chuck discounts the testimony, saying, "How're you gonna believe a crazy guy?" But Chuck too is under Teddy's suspicion; they'd never...
Audiences are so used to movies' easy seductions, with big jokes and jolts, that they may misread or discard the picture's potent message: that some things about ourselves are so painful to acknowledge, we almost wish we could cut them out of our skulls. This, and not the plot gimmickry, is what must have lured Scorsese to Shutter Island: the chance to leave audiences with an illuminating emptiness...
...Pafko baseball card - whose sale was going to finance the wedding. The theft leads Jimmy and Paul to the drug lord Poh Boy (Guillermo Diaz, who's good within the narrow guidelines) and his kidnap victim, sultry Gabriela (Ana de la Reguera), who... but why continue to parse the plot? I don't care, you don't care, the moviemakers certainly didn't care. (See pictures of Tracy Morgan's career...
...there just one alleged plot involved. The colorful Greek Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos this week claimed that the Nazi theft of Greek gold during World War II was to blame for the country's ballooning deficit, which has shaken investors' confidence in the euro, causing it to plunge in value against the dollar in recent weeks...