As a lifelong Alfred Hitchcock fan, I was thoroughly disappointed with the film. It is a deceitful docudrama in the Oliver Stone vein.
Alfred Hitchcock obviously had an amazing life. Why go to the trouble of fabricating whole facets of his life? I was dying to know facts about his childhood that influenced him. This movie gives you nothing, not even flashbacks. There are no reports of marital strife between him and his wife in real life; they never mortgaged their home to make a movie. Half the movie is a soap opera of supposed marital tensions between he and his wife that never existed.
I heard a story his father conspired with the local police chief to leave a young Hitchcock in prison overnight to teach him a lesson. Where's that story? How did he get into films? From Berlin to Hollywood? Wouldn't those make for a good movie?
I wouldn't care so much except they went to the trouble of getting a complete A-list cast of actors as if they were making some kind of definitive Hitchcock movie.
Are movie executives so immature, so cowardly they don't think anyone can make an interesting broader perspective biography that audiences can handle? It strikes me that this movie just plain fell into the wrong hands. The DVD menu comes up like you're watching Spiderman or something.
I was so hungry to watch a great Hitchcock movie and to get this tripe just plain made me mad. Time to hit the library and read some good non-fiction on Hitchcock if Hollywood is going to be so inept.
Alfred Hitchcock obviously had an amazing life. Why go to the trouble of fabricating whole facets of his life? I was dying to know facts about his childhood that influenced him. This movie gives you nothing, not even flashbacks. There are no reports of marital strife between him and his wife in real life; they never mortgaged their home to make a movie. Half the movie is a soap opera of supposed marital tensions between he and his wife that never existed.
I heard a story his father conspired with the local police chief to leave a young Hitchcock in prison overnight to teach him a lesson. Where's that story? How did he get into films? From Berlin to Hollywood? Wouldn't those make for a good movie?
I wouldn't care so much except they went to the trouble of getting a complete A-list cast of actors as if they were making some kind of definitive Hitchcock movie.
Are movie executives so immature, so cowardly they don't think anyone can make an interesting broader perspective biography that audiences can handle? It strikes me that this movie just plain fell into the wrong hands. The DVD menu comes up like you're watching Spiderman or something.
I was so hungry to watch a great Hitchcock movie and to get this tripe just plain made me mad. Time to hit the library and read some good non-fiction on Hitchcock if Hollywood is going to be so inept.