Technically excellent but.....

Rating: 7/10 (29 December 2005)

I very much understand the technical importance of this film regarding the difficulty and incision of Hitchcock's magic but I also think this ranks among his most overrated films. In no way do I deny that Hitchcock is among the greatest film directors that ever lived, but I think that this film is relatively weak, perhaps among the same lower class as the likes of, for instance, The Man Who Knew Too much (remake, of course!!)
For me, Rebecca is a Du Maurier masterclass by the Hitch, very much up there amongst his best (my personal fave!) but is this not merely a waste of Hitchcock's subtlety, directing a modern equivalent of, say, Independence day?!