His two recent films, Inception and the hit thriller Shutter Island, could prove to be exceptions in his more recent career.

FORBES: Leonardo DiCaprio's Big Leap

Leonardo DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshal, sent with his partner (Mark Ruffalo) to seek a missing person who has escaped from the Ashecliffe lunatic asylum not that there is much to escape to, since the asylum is on Shutter Island, miles from civilization in Boston Harbor.

NEWYORKER: Shutter Island