Talk about a control freak ...

Rating: 4/10 (11 November 2019)

Thank you 'JWA' for your 2007 review that nails it for me. I don't need to say much more than reference this review that find Vertigo to be one of very few Hitchcock movies that fizzles when it's trying to be hot and exactly as JWA observed ... but I didn't realize until his brilliant review that Jimmy Stewart was just plain wrong in this role. He was stiff and pathetic at the end when his character could have emerged with manhood restored but instead becomes shrill and plain ridiculous and yes embarrassing. It's almost comical the war movies back even presented truly neurotic behavior as if the other characters and the audience as well should be sympathetic to stalking, manipulation and control to the point of obsession. In Vertigo we have inexcusably weak to inexcusably agressive almost sadistic yet shrill and we're asked to excuse what isn't any fun at all.