Overrated--this is NOT a masterpiece.

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 1999)

What's all the fuss about? This movie's good, but it's NOT a masterpiece, and it's definitely NOT Hitchcock's best movie. I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, and when I finally did get to see it, I was bored during most of it. It seemed like if it took forever for this movie to end. Also, I thought this movie was going to be mostly about someone's fear of heights, but fear of heights is only a minor detail in the movie. Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak spend most of the movie walking around, or driving their cars, or talking to each other; not much else happens in the movie. However, I really liked Kim Novak's performance in this movie, and how she becomes two characters with two different accents (and she starts out blonde, but she looks much better as a brunette later in the movie). I also liked Stewart's dream sequence in the middle of the film. But for the most part, this movie was just good, and not more. I like Hitchcock movies, so I would recommend this movie to anyone who hasn't seen it and/or would like to see a Hitchcock film.