Watch Hitchcock For Free

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

best movie i've ever seen.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

As someone who's seen a lot of Hithcock's films I was very interested to see something that reflected the lift the director. It was certainly well known that he had an interest in several of the actresses that worked for him and had a thing for young blonde haired women. Although the characterization seems to go over the top with the introduction of Ed Gein into the movie, it is still interesting. I don't think Hitchcock had some kind of obsession with murder - he just found his niche in the movie business and stuck with. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant in this film with an amazing portrayal of the famous director - at least as how the public seemed to view him. Helen Mirren was also very good as was the rest of the cast. A very interesting movie and well shot.

Hitchcock was a passable and average film. I noted one reviewer said the film was better when it looked at the filming of Psycho as opposed to Hitchcock's marital relations, I couldn't agree more. Hitchcock is perhaps one of the greatest directors of all time. His innovative techniques and style brought a new experience to film as he cared about the film experience. Hence we had a degree of voyeurism as it was a lens for the audience to perceive the film and experience it. It was a nice glimpse into history to see the making of Psycho and the hurdles Alfred Hitchcock jumped to get it across the line. A sad truth about the film industry where reputation still wasn't good enough and Hitch had to pay for it himself. Anthony Hopkins is passable as Hitchcock as he somewhat resembles his stature and appearance and sounds like him. However he was not entirely convincing at being Hitch. Still, I am unsure who else could have played with role. The strength of the film was the behind the scenes film making of Psycho and its weakness was the marital problems with Hitch and Alma. Sadly the majority was about his marriage. Perhaps a better director with more flair that Hitch himself would appreciate could have directed this. I felt all the ingredients were there to make a great film but it was poorly 'cut' and put together.

Truly sad, this dreck of a movie with its all star cast of note just begging for a decent script and lacking, sadly, the real lowdown on the making of that marvellous movie, "Psycho".Instead we get the puffery of an inflated soap opera with Alfred and Alma at odds with each other in their "love story" of his and hers jealousies.No mention at all of the child they had together. And Alma's role is a complete distortion of the reality of her superb editing and script approval and his directorial genius. Instead we see her investing her time, chastely, with a losing hack writer. While Hitch impotently googley-eyes his leading ladies.A bonus: an unbelievably cloying finale to this feast of clichés hammers the "whatever" point home. Dishonouring each of them equally.A brilliant cast wasted, clumping wetly through this simplistic treatment of one of cinema's greats.1/10. Avoid.

I clicked open this film because I admire Alfred Hitchcock's fame and his work, but this is far more tedious than I anticipated. Alfred Hitchcock is indisputably a genius, and we are eagerly curious about his personal life, but it gives me the impression that it's rather boring and bereaved of any adventure or romance. Even though the film strives to exaggerate his love towards his creative and independent wife Alma, that obscure and plain love affair cannot support the legendary atmosphere fox company grants his films.Although I feel obliged to comment on Scarlet Johansson and James Darcy's acting skills, I barely seen any of their charms because all young actors are shaded under the glory of great Alfred Hitchcock, who according to Anthony Hopkin's depiction, is a pervert and self- centered wrinkled ball that breathes like a old bellow with tons of coal crumbs stuffed in it. Although I admire Alfred Hitchcock's talent, it doesn't interest me whether he keeps his swimming pool or have his reservation in a luxurious truffle from somewhere in Europe . They are fist world problems, and I have seen old artists sleeping on the street with newspapers as their blankets and granite as beds.In the shower scene Hitchcock was under the delusion that Janet was Whitfield, the knucklehead that had an affair with his wife. And the scene gave audience the impression that he was going to stab Janet, which gave the shower scene in Psycho an authentic texture. But you know, most people would at least confront Alma before murderous thoughts emerge, and the stress depicted caused by the imaginary affair in the movie is beyond the reasonable level. Failure of this emotional twist makes the whole film sort of artificial.I must click acclaim for the ending. That promotion manual is exciting, and the audience's reaction is palatable, and the spotlight around the red carpet lights up the mood just right. But when Sir Anthony Hopkins is seemingly directing waves of screaming, I hope they can remove that waiter from the background. His presence is really awkward. And probably a revolving shot would be better, in a more open and larger field, because that major highlight scene makes Hitchcock seems like a self-absorbed weirdo