10 'Bad Guy' Movie Characters Who Were Actually Good All Along

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have collaborated on a ridiculous six major motion pictures, and it's no exaggeration to say that every single one of them is outstanding. Arguably the most underrated of the bunch is Shutter Island, a chilling piece that keeps the audience guessing right up until the final moments and beyond.

The story revolves around DiCaprio's Teddy Daniels, a U.S. Marshall brought to an institution for the criminally insane to investigate a missing prisoner. The asylum, located on its own remote island off the coast of Boston, is home only to the most brutal and dangerous of criminals, one of whom it turns out is Daniels himself.

Throughout the film, the Marshall is constantly hampered by the hospital's leading physician, Dr. John Cawley (Ben Kingsley), who apparently experiments on his patients and lobotomises them. All was not what it seemed at Ashecliffe Hospital, but no one watching could have guessed that DiCaprio's character was actually a resident named Andrew Laeddis - and that Cawley leaned into his Teddy Daniels persona as a way of trying to make a breakthrough.

Laeddis murdered his wife after she killed their three children, and in his grief invented Teddy Daniels, terrorising the other patients on the island. Dr. Cawley was genuinely trying to help his patient, though of course stopping short of giving him confidential records, something that was mistook for something mistrustful. And as for the lobotomies? These were only for those deemed beyond any other means of help, and dangerous enough to warrant them.