Alfred Hitchcock's Best?

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2003)

As I watched "Vertigo's" Jimmy Stewart's obsession start to escalate. I myself started to get entangled in the web; the feeling of being trapped made me realize "Vertigo's" brilliance. Master manipulator Hitchcock has crafted a film that plays the viewer, like it plays the characters in the film. The films genius can be attributed to a myriad of things: the haunting score, the perfect use of colors, the great performances. The films only weakness lies in it's sometimes methodically slow pace--this a big problem with many old films. But lamenting over that is just nitpicking. "Vertigo" is one-of-a-kind film making.
Rating (8 out of 10)
Capsule Review: Brilliantly constructed, and puts up a good argument as Hitchcock's best film.