Lee
13May11
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Chris Jones
26Feb12
What’s interesting is that the problems that this movie has-the datedness, the corny dialogue, the occasional Shatner-esque levels of scenery chewing-don’t disappear over its course, they just cease to matter by the time you reach the climax. Legitimately one of the most well structured films I’ve ever seen. Also, you can practically sink your teeth into the homoerotic tension between Brandon and Phillip.
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Lights in the Dusk
29Jan12
The construction of the film, like the cord of death, is a continuous strand, tight and unbroken. The beginning and end - isolated elements there to be "tied up" in the sense of narrative exposition - eventually become entwined at the precise moment of Stewart's third-act reveal, creating a noose that entraps these killers in a downfall of their own creation. Possibly the greatest of Hitchcock's 'bomb under the table' experiments and definitely one of his most purely entertaining films.
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Archie Del Mundo
17Jan12
Didnt notice until now that Hitchcock's ROPE has some odd qualities. All the players seemed on edge - acting too quaint not to commit a mistake. Most conversations were heavy-handed. And the moment Jimmy Stewart walked in - "miscast" was written all over him.
Michael Harbour
17Jan12
Hitchcock said "Rope" was an "experiment that didn't work out". Nevertheless, it's an interesting experiment and a reasonably good movie. Certainly worth spending an hour and twenty minutes with.
Trevor
3Jan12
I wanted to like it but I found it incredibly awkward and uninvolving. While Granger and Dall are fine enough, Stewart is mysteriously miscast and quite boring. Hitchcock's first Technicolor effort displays a disappointingly dull pallet and the gimmicky experimental technique makes the film stagey and awkward.
Emilie
29Nov11
I think it's a bit a shame that homosexuality has been that much left apart... And the thing that we know from the start that there is the body in the coffer passably takes the suspense away from the plot... I would have prefer not to know 'till the end... It would have been doubly interesting and fascinating. But still great and superbly mastered! And I absolutely love Hitchcock's sense of humor.
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Gylfi Reynisson
28Jul11
Loved the scene where they talk about the film with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman...good joke. All four movies that Hitchcock directed Stewart in are brilliant.
Magnus Alexander Nikolaisen
10Jul11
Truly brilliant! Hitchcock is a master and "Rope" easily belongs with his best works. In this film his impressive control over 'suspense-narration' is revealed in pure form. He turns a simple premise in to a tense and great cinematic experience - within the limitations of an apartments four walls. Impressive!
Adriano Rocha
3Mar11
It's amazing how the master Hitchcock manages to keep the tension of suspense, inside a flat, almost uncut! Charismatic performances. A masterpiece that deserved to be revised (yesterday). =)
richmondhill
15Feb11
Approximately equal measures of unweildy stodge and fascinating experiment. Oddly erotic too, with the trussed-up pertness of Granger and Dall only hinting at their private thrills. However for all its waxwork appearance, it's more enjoyable than other approaches to the subject (The Hours and the Times & Compulsion) and is a notable entry in the not-so-notable sub-genre of homosexual-as-killer. Stiff on a few levels.
