Smart Thriller, Although Climax Could Have Been Better

Rating: 8/10 (16 August 2010)

Rear Window is a smart thriller. With well-written dialogue, a great cast, and mounting suspense, it proves that a movie can be good even if the setting never changes. Although I liked the very end, which concludes the stories of all the different people Jimmy Stewart's character has been watching, the climax could have been a bit better. It ends too abruptly. Other than that, Alfred Hitchcock scores again. Not many other directors could have turned the somewhat simple story that Rear Window is into a great movie. Hitchcock would have turned 111 years old last Friday. Although he never won an Academy Award, he had a very long and successful movie career, and had a family that he loved very much.