It's fun and interesting, but falls short of many of Hitchcock's best. There was some great camerawork, some panning shots that worked very well, though there were some obvious cuts as well. The script was excellent with a tight story; tense and funny.

not perfect but pretty good

Opens on a murder& draws the viewer in further w/ the push-pull conflict of 1 murderer having second thoughts & the other daring 2 b found out. Stewart's great as a former headmaster who's still smarter than his ex-charges, although it'd be better if there hadn't been 1 instance where he seems2 skate by on luck rather than wits. As 4 the suspenseful idea of trying 2 make it seem like the film's one long unbroken shot, Hitchcock should've hid his edits better if he's going 2 do all that blocking

A firm Hitchcock favourite of mine. The atmosphere and tension created within a single apartment is remarkable and beautifully paced.

90.000

I can't possibly understand why Hitchcock would go against all he represents in cinema to create a gimmick-film that doesn't justify at all the transition to cinema (especially when he was so against "theatrical" films, where the possibilited of the medium weren't exploited). This major flaw (which for some reason no one considers a flaw) is ignorable, nevertheless, because the film really has a great script with a tense, suspenful ending and strong performances all around.

Who knew you could pack so much suspense into 80 minutes? "Rope" tells you exactly what happened with the murder in the first minutes of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was not interested in mystery films. He believed that a movie that builds up to a few minutes of shock (the "reveal") was just wasted footage. Hitchcock has shown time and time again that he can keep his audiences enthralled from beginning to end by deliberately giving them information. That is true suspense.

It's a shame that you can't mention this film without talking about the "one take" gimmick, because it really does overshadow an otherwise great film. Stacked with tension, a script loaded with dramatic irony and black humour, and lots of stuff going on beneath the surface (including the patently homosexual subtext). I guess it could have been improved with two better actors in the lead roles and more conventional editing, but that's just nitpicking.

Hitchcock said this film was merely a stunt; actually, the fact that "Rope" was filmed in a single take (or rather nine takes edited together as if they were one) is only one aspect that makes it fascinating. The premise is simple but effective and as the film evolves, it becomes even more perversely enjoyable and wickedly suspenseful. The script is dark, macabre and quite riveting as it touches philosophical issues with a daring approach. It's one of Hitchcock's greats -not just a gimmick.

Certainly not a subtle movie, it is brilliantly written and choreographed. A very well scripted, shot, and acted though experiment.

The attempt to make this movie with only a handful of shots is utterly brilliant. I can't think of another movie that attempts anything close to this. I don`t know why nobody else would try this. It works so well here. The camerawork is interesting enough to make sure that we don`t feel like we`re watching a play. It feels very cinematic. The one hard cut we get to Jimmy Stewart`s face when he first starts to suspect something, (the only hard cut in the film,) is breathtaking.