what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. Despite one again Hitchcock's brilliant direction and just a cast that delivers well made perfomances 'North by Northwest' just doesn't have enough of suspense and tension that a film of this kind needs to have and besides some cool scenes like the one where the main star was running away from the airplane there just wasn't enough for me to say that i really really enjoyed it as a film. (5/10)

While it doesn't quite reach Rear Window/Vertigo levels of greatness, there is still plenty to be enjoyed from this one. Its definitely more on the comedic side than most of Hitchcock's work, including some great dialogue, a hilarious auction scene and my soft spot for unwilling protagonists. Add a couple of the most thrilling and iconic sequences in cinema at the middle and end of the film respectively and I'd say its a solid 9/10.Viewed 25/05/2018

Why do old movies need to be automatically classic just because they are old? This movie is horrible...period. The acting is bad...the story is unbelievable, in the literal sense...the production value weak. Hitchcock and Grant are given much too much credit...both are sub-par entertainers. A critics movie for sure and a waste of time for anyone under 50...

Hitchcock at his sharpest. Art and commerce in a delicious salad with all the right ingredients. A brisk screenplay by Ernest Lehman a Cary Grant that is just pure delight, Eva Marie Saint fresh out of her Oscar from "On the Waterfront" is an icy blonde with a brain. James Mason, the ultimate foreign sinister not to mention Jessie Royce Landis and Hitchcock brings Bernard Herrmann to wrap it all up in one of the most infectious scores imaginable. A real treat.