Not sure why this is so highly regarded

Rating: 5/10 (12 February 2017)

I don't see why this is regarded so highly. Do people feel obliged to love Alfred Hitchcock movies? Psycho, Rear Window and Rebecca were masterpieces but Vertigo is not in their league, not even close.
I personally found Vertigo long-winded and ultimately quite boring. Hitchcock takes forever to set the scene, then having set it, instead of ramping up the pace, continues to drag out the story.
Many of the key turning points and pieces of the plot seemed contrived and implausible.
Good performances by James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes though.