Premise - Pure Gold. Director - Pure Gold. Almost perfect.

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2012)

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is the story of John "Scottie" Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective who plans to retire due to his acrophobia and the death of another police officer because of it. After he retires he is called upon by an old friend to follow his wife and check out the strange activities she's been doing. While following her, Scottie becomes obsessed with her and slowly falls in love with her.
I quite enjoyed this film. It is much like a typical Hitchcock film, it's got the same feel, but it seems a bit different. The premise is pure gold and Hitchcock does an amazing job with it. The music was perfectly suited to the film in general, and also each scene it was neatly placed in.
It has a few twists, as a Hitchcock film should, and I was completely stunned by how much I liked it. I'll admit, it got a tiny bit boring, but the second I started getting bored of it, something happened and made me interested almost immediately. It's like he intended to do that.
It looks great, for a film of the 50's. I liked the ending, but I didn't like it. Without spoiling anything, it ended sort of, abruptly. It was good, but I think they should have added a tiny bit more, I was so intrigued by where the story was going and especially the character of Scottie, I just wanted to know his reaction to it. Less subtlety.
But all in all, a great watch. A nice typical Hitchcock film that was just brilliant.