The Wrong Man

bureaucracy: the movie. this is a perfect storm of every bad element from previous hitchcock films, but all put together. it's the sole film during his "golden period" that's out-and-out not good. worse yet, it's just a boring slog. there are a few interesting elements to the film. it's got an opening rather like hitchcock's tv show, where he addresses the audience. he tells them that the story is all true, and then there's a screen full of writing telling us it's all true, and then another screen at the end telling us it's all true. guess what? it's true. that kind of boring waste-of-time is... read more