A roller-coaster ride

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2005)

What I like best about Hitchcock movies is that his hero was never a super spy or a super cop. He was an ordinary man who would get into trouble either due to a case of mistaken identity or something like that but he would come out of this trouble by courage and intelligence that he never even knew it existed and just by plain luck. As far as this concept is concerned, this movie is no different from other Hitchcock's but what I like about this film is that it is also very funny which makes it an excellent 'comedy thriller'. Hitchcock had a very good sense of humor as well, which is very apparent in this film.
Of course that crop duster sequence is marvelously shot and I loved that scene in the auction house and who can forget that famous climax at the Mt. Rushmore. One of my favorite Hitchcocks.