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Family Plot Reviews
This is overlong and plodding, about as clever as a mediocre sitcom, looking like a parody/knockoff of one of Hitchcock's better efforts.
The journey is often amusing and sometimes nerve-wracking. Either way, it is not to be missed.
Family Plot is a confection: a sugared almond, from the heart whose kernel the tiny capsule of traditional poison is unaccountably missing. Billed as diabolical, the film is in fact benign to the point of all-out merriment.
It shows the Master of Suspense back in top form, and he keeps us laughing all the way to the unexpected ending.
It is a grand entertainment in the grand tradition, the dialogue as sprightly as the pace, the giggles as frequent as the gasps, the scene as realistic as the action, the people as credible as the plot.
Family Plot proves what some of us have long suspected: namely, that deep down the "diabolical" old "master of suspense," Alfred Hitchcock, is really an irrepressible clown.
If this is Hitchcock's last film, he couldn't have left us on a more confident and mischievously inventive note.
If Family Plot is not the perfectly structured film, it remains a gem from the master of wry suspense.
If this film had been made by a director other than Alfred Hitchcock, the expectations may not have been as high. Such is the price of years of success. Family Plot, while not up to those usual standards, is still crackling good cinema.
Out of respect for Hitchcock's stature, and his years, Family Plot should be considered as fleetingly as possible.
Hitchcock's final picture is not one of the classics but has many of the elements that made him great.
[A] small masterpiece, one of Hitchcock's most adventurous and expressive experiments in narrative form.
A marvellously fluid light comedy with scarcely a slack moment.
The movie is a gentle trifle, a pleasant diversion from a man who knows what he's doing every step of the way.
Family Plot is at times a pure mechanical construction, an endless game where the different actions and protagonists intertwine without gaining something. [Full Review in Spanish]
The best movie Hitchcock has made since North by Northwest.
Inventive, often underrated thriller.
A rolling boil of sex and violence beneath the bland surfaces of suburban placidity.
As the impromptu coda to not only Hitchcock's fifty-year career but also his critically disharmonious late period, which finds some of his most political and under-appreciated work, Family Plot concludes ingeniously, with a wink.
Hitchcock's last (53rd) film is a post-modern, self-reflexive work, which deserves a more serious look and better grade than granted by many critics.