Joel Horwich

Unreasonably flawed. Great music, but incessantly loud. More distracting than subtle. Bates was a study of innocence. Perkins performed the role brilliantly, but the character was 'creepy' enough to have caused most viewers to refuse to check in to that hotel. Hence, the scene renders unlikely the chance that Janet Leigh's character would, no matter how tired and regardless of her preceding experience with law enforcement. Hint: study Law and Order's villains. You sometimes can't tell until the very end. HIPPA notwithstanding, the Psychiatrist's summation at the end should have been Sub rosa/need to know. Too many people standing around listening. Other flaws, too numerous to name. Easily corrected, if Hitchcock had taken the time or even cared to do so. There is a limit to "willful suspension of disbelief."

Banal, predictable plot and script. Two dimensional acting. The brothers look nothing alike. They speak quite differently. The explanation for this is not persuasive. Viciousness for its own sake.

Monotonously slow. Vonnegut-Style time shifts without establishing a compelling relationship between old and young character. Mundane and incidental events sandwiched between more profound episodes. Garland's character was far too complex and tragic for this kind of treatment.

A fine film which highlighted the contributions of the principal characters. I get that the principal role of white male 'scientists' were as foils for the African American characters. What I don't understand is their usefullness to the film . Why were they even present? As scientists, they seemed to contribute absolutely nothing to (NASA or) the movie. In that way, it's probable the film went too far in demonstrating the value of its three protagonists. The true story was likely one of grudging collaboration. If not, those men would likely have lost their jobs and only the African American women would have remained. Clearly, that didn't happen. The result: two-dimensional characters all the way around.

To be generous ... ponderous.