it's good apart from the middle.

Rating: 6/10 (21 March 2019)

What people don't tell you about this movie is how much it sags in the middle.
I don't want to spoil anything but I think you can guess what happens early on that might do that.
I was very intrigued as this movie started. I was curious to see what became of these characters. Then we meet Norman Bates and he is exactly what we want to see in these kinds of movies. He conveys an unintentionally disquieting character. You really feel like you are dealing with a damaged character but one who doesn't wear it on their sleeve like other characters would.
There's the iconic scene which is stunning of course but then it drags because there's nothing to do except follow police procedure. That is the laziest kind of story: just follow people whose job it is to investigate macabre things...
But it does pull itself together by the end. The ending will really stay with you. It's just thoughtful.