Over-rated sellout

Rating: 4/10 (18 May 2016)

Alfred Hitchcock is the master of thrills and mysteries... so knowing that he made this just makes me hate it even more.
Every old Hollywood glam cliché is thrown at you. you like elegant women staring off into the horizon? damsels in distress? Kissing on the beach and the waves crash in the background?
This movie's got you covered!
The plot is straight forward enough, you know what's happening ten minutes in, what the movie banks on however is your investment in the character and watching their decent into obsession.
The actors were pretty good (though those eyebrows were distracting... did she use a sharpie to make them?) and the overall movie very scenic but it didn't feel like a Hitchcock movie until the very last scene, that's you're only clue to who could have this twisted sense of justice. otherwise it just felt like a sell-out, this is popular so do this, people like that so add it in...
One of my least liked movies by Hitchcock, skip it and watch a good one like rear window.