North by Northwest (1959) Reviews
- Starring:
- Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, (more)
- Director(s):
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Category:
- Mystery & Suspense
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful Its the only movie I have ever seen on rottentomatoes.com that received a 100% rating. My wife and I enjoyed it. It has the signature Hitchcock cinemaphotography like aerial views. The acting is a ... Read More Its the only movie I have ever seen on rottentomatoes.com that received a 100% rating. My wife and I enjoyed it. It has the signature Hitchcock cinemaphotography like aerial views. The acting is a bit stilted and melodramatic, ala 50's style (which it is). The ending is really, really lame, as if they ran out of budget.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful Entertaining, a classic, a little slow in several parts, and deeply frustrating elsewhere because you just wanna slap so many of the characters upside the head. Not sorry I saw it, but not on my list ... Read More Entertaining, a classic, a little slow in several parts, and deeply frustrating elsewhere because you just wanna slap so many of the characters upside the head. Not sorry I saw it, but not on my list of favorites, either. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful I... never saw this movie all the way through because I would flip through the channels on my TV and find this movie but at the end... So I hardly knew what was going on and yet I was at the edge ... Read More I... never saw this movie all the way through because I would flip through the channels on my TV and find this movie but at the end... So I hardly knew what was going on and yet I was at the edge of my seat! Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful I will contest those who proclaim this to be Hitchcock's best; it isn't. From what I've seen, Vertigo is the unchallenged best, followed by Psycho. The Birds and this one here are in equilibrium, ... Read More I will contest those who proclaim this to be Hitchcock's best; it isn't. From what I've seen, Vertigo is the unchallenged best, followed by Psycho. The Birds and this one here are in equilibrium, although, this is the classier film. But it wins over Strangers on a Train and Rear Window. I'm not really a fan of old acting; it is, for the most part wooden, especially in the role of the females. This is no exception to the rule. Cary Grant may be classy and suave, but he doesn't flex his acting skills; he speaks in the haughty twang of a well-paid aristocrat. Eva Marie Saint is typical. The real power here is the direction, as is the case in every Hitchcock film I've seen except for Vertigo and Rear Window, when Jimmy Stewart rocked the house and always did. North by Northwest predated the adventure/suspense films of the modern era, but it made great use of its setting (plane scene, Rushmore). Not the best, but a Hitchcockian classic. B Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful this movie is hickcock at his best. It did not have unexplainable things in like the birds. Cary Grant was very good. The director's of today should make movies like this one. You can make a ... Read More this movie is hickcock at his best. It did not have unexplainable things in like the birds. Cary Grant was very good. The director's of today should make movies like this one. You can make a great movie without a lot of cussing and grafic sex in it. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
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