Note: I did not finish the movie (the rest was scratched, but I didn't feel like continuing). Half of me doesn't want to write this review, but half of me is like, "Who else will do it?"
"Rear Window" is a 1954 mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie was based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story, "It Had to be Murder." There's also a 1998 remake of the movie.
Description on the back of the movie box: Directed by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock's
Rear Window is an edge-of-your-seat classic starring two of Hollywood's most popular stars. When a professional photographer is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. When he suspects his neighbor of murdering his nagging wife, he enlists his socialite girlfriend to help investigate the suspicious chain of events, leading to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history.
James Stewart as L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies and Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont
So maybe I shouldn't be saying anything, but this movie is almost 2 hours long and I watched a bit over 1 hour of it until it stopped working. Great concept, but horrible movie. It was good acting, pretty believable, but it just didn't do much for me. That was super surprising, because I thought Alfred Hitchcock was supposed to be this amazing director and I thought this movie in particular was supposed to be an amazing movie. It's even considered one of the greatest movies ever made, so what was I missing? I'm positive the film ends with justice, but again I didn't see it. I'm also pretty sure that Alfred Hitchcock is the great director he is known to be and that maybe this just wasn't my cup of tea. I fell asleep for a few minutes twice while I was watching it. So it was pretty boring to me. It wasn't suspenseful in the least and I thought it was pretty predictable. In all honesty, I only watched because I wanted to see how Grace Kelly (btw she really does deserve the name Grace) was as an actress. Not much else for me to say.
Here is the trailer.
