Hitchcock 2012
This is another movie I was able to find at Dollar Tree, so you can’t get much cheaper, and it even came with a digital copy. It got so-so reviews from critics, but I thought it was pretty good, having just watched Psycho all the way through for the first time a couple of days earlier, plus watching some of the extras on that disk about making the movie. Anthony Hopkins doesn’t really seem like Hitchcock as much as he seems like a weird version of Anthony Hopkins. Hitchcock just had a very unique look and voice. I think he captures the director pretty well and does a fine job in his performance, but that throws things off. His wife, Alma, is played very well by Helen Mirren. While the movie takes place during the making of Psycho and mostly concerns the risk Hitchcock took in making the movie, it also has a personal story about the Hitchcock couple, a creative team. There are a lot of references to specific scenes in the movie, which I would have missed completely without watching the movie beforehand, but that made the movie a lot of fun. Then you take someone like Scarlett Johansson playing Janet Leigh, which is interesting too and really an honor for both of them. Jessica Biel is just as beautiful and plays Vera Miles. Maybe there isn’t much to the movie ultimately, but it is a good story about a movie everyone knows about. And certainly, if they can make movies about how a movie was made, they should never run out of movies to make.
Written: 09 May 2019
Owned on: Blu-ray, DVD, Digital