Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Red-Barracuda In the earlier years of his career Dario Argento used to be referred to as the Italian Hitchcock. So it's not altogether surprising that this latter day made-for-TV thriller is a direct homage to the great British director. Do You Like Hitchcock? is the most playful film that Argento has ever made and it is constructed more or less as a means of referencing material from several Hitchcock classics such as Rear Window (voyeuristic protagonist, the apartments, the girlfriend endangering herself while the broken legged boyfriend watches on), Strangers on a Train (the murder set up theory), Dial M for Murder (the second murder set up theory), Psycho (the protagonist in the shower while something sinister occurs, the bathroom attack) and Vertigo (the thrilling rooftop sequence). I guess because it is a film so committed to paying homage, its plot becomes almost secondary and even a bit clunky. But if you can get past this – and the particularly bad dubbing and dialogue – you could have a pretty good time.The story has a murder being committed in the apartment across the street from a voyeuristic film student whose love of Hitchcock thrillers leads him to believe he knows who the murderer is. Because of its TV origins and in keeping with its Hitchcock influence it puts more emphasis on suspense than on gore. There are a couple of violent scenes but nothing in comparison to the kind of thing Argento is normally associated with. On the other hand, there are some genuinely well-handled suspense scenes; in particular, a climatic sequence on a rooftop was quite thrilling. There is even a little smattering of nudity thrown in for good measure which in all honesty is never exactly a terrible thing. All-in-all, this is a reasonably entertaining if minor effort from Argento. It has to be put into a little bit of context though, given that it's a TV movie and should not in all seriousness be compared too much to his earlier feature films. This one is a light diversion but it's not too bad at all.

chrichtonsworld "Do you like Hitchcock" should be seen as tribute and parody of Argento's own work and Hitchcock classics. It is fun to watch and recognize the references. I am not going to mention them all since there are quite a lot. But the first one sets the tone and gives us a glimpse of what to come. In the introduction we see two older women in black acting strange. This curious boy (the lead character in his younger years) follows them where he sees them sacrificing a chicken in a very bloody manner. The boy cries and gets chased by these women. Luckily the boy can escape without being harmed. Of course the women are a reference to his supernatural thrillers like Suspiria and Inferno. Since it is obvious that the two women are supposed to be witches. The funny thing was that the introduction in itself had nothing to do with the main plot apart from showing that the main character is a voyeur and getting in trouble because of it. The main plot is completely in Hitchcock mode where enough fresh elements have been added to keep everything interesting. Viewers aren't required to have seen any of Hitchcock movies. But believe me when I tell you that it makes it more worth wile if you have. Personally I would have preferred a much darker ending where all the events of the movie would have tied in.(SPOILER SPOILER It would have been cool to see the main character finally get punished by the two women from the beginning after he realized that his voyeurism should stop. But maybe that would have been too dark for a light movie like this SPOILER SPOILER). Fun little movie!

TheUnknown837-1 I *loved* the *idea* of the Dario Argento movie "Do You Like Hitchcock?" Being an admirer and fanatic of the Master of Suspense myself, I was all for a movie that was not only inspired by Hitchcock's masterpieces, but made homage to them and incorporated their influence into its characters. The idea of combining elements from films such as "Vertigo", "Psycho", "Strangers on a Train", "Dial M for Murder" and most notably "Rear Window" sounded like a real winner to me. So the concept of this made-for-television film rang like solid gold, however, the final product itself is not. Rather, I'm afraid to report, it's dreck.The whole premise is like a reworking of "Rear Window." A film student obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock gets to looking out his window, especially when he breaks his leg. And he becomes convinced that his neighbor across the street has committed murder. And he's convinced that his neighbor is also a fan of Alfred Hitchcock and may have been inspired by the master's films.Now the homage and the respect to Alfred Hitchcock is admirable, however the film is not. I will admit there was one moment of suspense that I actually found credible, but everything before and after it was so unbelievably dull, so preposterously dumb, so mind-numbingly slow and inferior that the movie resulted in nothing short of being a catastrophe. I had a feeling the movie was going to be a waste of time after its peculiar and unintentionally funny opening scene. I knew that when I saw yet another unnecessary sex scene afterward that the movie was going to throw a lot of idiotic and time-slowing ideas after another.I am not familiar with the director or actors' works, but I'm sure they have done much better than what I saw here. Elio Germano is rather dull as the protagonist modeled after Jimmy Stewart's character in "Rear Window", often rushing through his lines so fast that he's opaque, his girlfriend played by Cristina Brondo hasn't a sliver of the charm of Grace Kelly, and the murderers – the characters in a Hitchcock movie that were always charismatic or interesting – are as dull as they come…and badly acted. There is no menace from them.In addition, the movie also fails because it's trying too much to be like a Hitchcock movie, modeling a lot of scenes, cinematography, sequences, and so forth after scenes from the master's filmography. The movie doesn't seem to have an original thought of its own…and what it does have of its own is rather ridiculous. As hopeful and enthusiastic I was for this film, I'm sorry to report that your time is better spent elsewhere.

Witchfinder General 666 I had pretty high expectations from this movie as it is a tribute from the great Dario Argento to the great Alfred Hitchcock.Dario Argento is one of the living directors i have the greatest respect for, and one of my personal favorite directors of all-time, and there is probably no true cineaste around to doubt that Alfred Hitchcock is one of THE most influential and greatest directors in the history of motion pictures.That being said, I was slightly disappointed with "Ti Piace Hitchcock?" aka "Do You Like Hitchcock?" of 2005. Not because it's not nearly as gory and brutal as Argento's ultra-violent masterpieces from the 70s and 80s - I expected it to be mild for Argento standards, since it's a made-for-TV tribute from a genius director, Dario Argento, to another genius director, Alfred Hitchcock, and this doesn't call for the extreme violence of films like Suspiria or Opera. What I did expect, however, was the suspense, that Argento usually delivers, and I was therefore a bit disappointed, as I found all the parts of the movie that were meant to surprise way too predictable. There is a lot of tension, and the movie highly entertains, no doubt about that but the plot-twists are quite lame and it is simply not nearly as suspenseful as we're used to from Argento, especially after he delivered another great and highly suspenseful Giallo, "Non Ho Sonno" aka "Sleepless" in 2001.The performances are great, Elio Germano delivers a solid leading performances and all three leading actresses - Elisabetta Roncchetti, Christina Brondo and Chiara Conti are both sexy and excellent in their roles, especially Roncchetti is drop-dead gorgeous and delivers a great performance in a great femme-fatale role. The score by Pino Donaggio is very good, but then again it is not nearly as brilliant as the scores by Progressive Rock band Goblin and their genius keyboard-player/composer Claudio Simonetti.Over-all, the movie delivers suspense, atmosphere and good entertainment. It is just not very good for what it is (or could have been), a Hitchcock-tribute from Argento. Argento fans like myself run risk of being a little disappointed, but it is definitely worth the time.