Masterful

Rating: 10/10 (25 September 2009)

The extent of my experience of Hitchcock previously went little further than some foggy recollection of watching Psycho an awfully long time ago. when my girlfriend rather spontaneously brought home a box-set, I was intrigued but my modest expectations were to be completely blown out of the water by this, the perfect introduction to the master of suspense.
Rear Window establishes everything, from the beautifully drawn characters, the location and premise so convincingly that the movie just entraps you for its entire duration. James Stewart plays a photographer prone to danger who is incapacitated after an injury and relegated to the confines of a chair; he fills his dwindling hours by observing his neighbours from his rear window. The more he see's, the more he becomes involved with the peculiarities of their live's. When he suspects foul play, we're taken on a trip of obsession; is it all some elaborate misunderstanding compounded by his boredom and solitude or has he uncovered a vile story simply through watching?
Unmissable cinema.