Film Review - Hitchcock (2013)

Good Evening, Hitchcock stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock as he prepares to make his next movie to follow the big success of North by Northwest, the movie he chooses to make however will be the biggest test of his career.

Hitchcock for me was merely okay, there are a lot of things I liked about it and I'll start with Hopkins as Helen Mirren who plays his wife Alma, the two have a great chemistry together and their scenes are fantastic to watch, Scarlett Johansson is good as well channelling the late Janet Leigh and Toni Collette is good as well in her small role.

But my praise doesn't end there, the cinematography by Jeff Cronenweth is very good as well, nicely capturing the period the film is set in and there are some nice nods and cameos littered throughout the film that film buffs will really love.

Sadly however the film is also very predictable, anyone who knows about Psycho which this film is about and Hitchcock in general will know exactly how the film ends and as a result, will get either bored or impatient with the film to get to the end so that they can then go about their daily lives and/or head for home from the cinema.

But still there is a lot to like about Hitchcock and it was certainly better than I expected it to be but the predictable nature of the story failed to make it memorable for me, 2 out of 5.