One of the greatest movies ever made

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2014)

If ever you needed an example of cinema as an art form, this is it. Amazingly brilliant.
The plot and dialogue are great on their own, but, as always, it is Hitchcock's direction that turns this into a masterpiece. He pulls out every trick here - the clever setting of a man being able to view other people's everyday lives from afar, the camera angles, the scene setting, the character building, the growing suspense. In the end the plot doesn't matter, you just want to soak in all of Hitchcock's cinematic genius.
Another key factor to the brilliance of this movie is the Jimmy Stewart- Grace Kelly interaction. They are both superb in their roles, but together they are even better.
For me, this is Hitchcock's magnum opus. Yes, even better than Psycho, which to some may be a sacrilegious thing to say, but it shows how good it is.
Surely one of the greatest movies ever made.