Some movies age well, and some don’t. This is the latter.
I know it defined a generation and all of that, but it kinda fails with the basics if you ask me.
It looks and sounds nice, but the characters, themes and story are boring and flat.
It’s hard to believe that a lot of Hitchcock’s classics were made before this, because some of the editing and directing choices are so amateurish.
It’s very concerned with being a product of its time, and that’s fine, but becoming dated is always a possible drawback of that, especially when it isn’t attempting to be artistic or deep.
Even when keeping the cultural climate of the time in the back of my mind, I think it falls well below the mark.
Some of its qualities should be acknowledged, but this is so clearly a film that’s going to lose more of its value with every new generation.

4.5/10