Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

(Credit, IMDb) A college film student, obsessed with the works of Alfred Hitchcock, investigates a murder committed in the apartment building across from his and suspects that his seductive neighbor hired a girlfriend to commit the deed. I didn't hate this movie, far from it. I actually enjoyed this somewhat. It has some neat homages to Rear Window, Vertigo, among other works. I just felt that Dario Argento should have gone a bit further with the plot. That seems to be the theme for Argento these days "Missed potential" I'm not sure if he has succumbed to the pressures of trying to adapt to today's society, but he can't seem to fully put it together. Your enjoyment of this film may hinge on how you feel about the polarizing lead. Elio Germano is a completely asinine in almost every scene he's in. He's an unlikable pervert that is very hard to elicit sympathy from. You have a gorgeous woman, why are you treating her so badly? I couldn't stomach him, but managed to get into the movie anyway. The performances are nothing to write home about, but that's not really what Argento films are all about. The Man is about style. It has some decent twists, involving the killer, and Argento puts in his usual stylistic touches. I just felt he could have done so much more with this movie. I didn't mind it, but I didn't love it either. It's worth a look, just don't expect too much. You take what you can get from Argento these days. 5.6/10

Argento has obviously seen better days, but there are still traces of his genius in this slow-moving TV movie about a kid obsessed with the films of Hitchcock who thinks a neighbor living across from him may have been murdered by someone he knows. The murder itself is about the only gory moment in the movie, which will come as a disappointment to lovers of past Argento splatter classics like CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, TENEBRAE, DEEP RED, SUSPIRIA, THE PHANTOM and OPERA. The film pays homage to STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, PSYCHO, VERTIGO, DIAL M FOR MURDER and REAR WINDOW. Badly acted, and the stilted English spoken by the actors in an Italian setting makes it hard to watch at times. The killer's identity comes as no surprise in the end.

Had Ti Piace Hitchock? (Do You Like Hitchock?) been the debut of a twenty-something director working with a few bucks and using friends and family members in his cast, I would have been eager to praise it for a few decent scenes and neat visual choices. Since, however, it has been made by a director of the magnitude of Dario Argento, an influential master of horror, the result comes across as aggressively mediocre and even rather sad - almost to the point that, along with Il Cartaio and other recent bombs dished out by Argento, it could be pointed out as a sign of the rapidly encroaching senility of a once great artist.Built as a Hitchock shrine, the movie references, among others, Rear Window and Strangers on a Train: set in Turin (the same baroque, elegant city of Profondo Rosso), the film follows Giulio, a young man spying on his neighbours; when a woman is killed, movie geek Giulio suspects a Strangers on a Train-like arrangement in which two murderers switched their designated victims.Surprisingly flat set-pieces apart, what hurts more is the acting, with some of the worst performances in a movie by a major director you are likely to see in a long time. I can honestly claim I've seen better performances in school plays, and by better I mean "there is no comparison". This is becoming a trademark of the last Argento: most of his recent movies have been plagued by this horrifically bad acting - see Silvio Muccino in Il Cartaio, another recent failure unwisely homaged here with a shot of its poster in a video store.The most entertaining part is catching other Hitchcock references; I've noticed nods to Marnie and Vertigo, and to Psycho as well (the climax takes place in a bathroom), but I might have missed others as I was covering my eyes and ears during the worst instances of bad acting.4/10

I think this is a pretty good movie. There is not much gore in it, and sometimes the humor gets a bit too silly, but I still enjoyed it. There's more to Argento than just gory murder scenes. It's actually slightly more suspenseful as a whole than most Argento flicks, in a lighthearted and cheerful kind of way, and it's still has some pretty nice visuals. For being a made for TV movie, it's got a lot of style, with some nice camera work, and like the old Hitchcock movies, it has a lot of humor in it, and a lot of references to a lot of Hitchcock's films. After all, the movie is a homage to the old master of suspense, Sir Alfred Hitchcock. The movie is more like an old fashioned thriller with some of Argentos own unusual style. It was shot on 35 mm film. Sometimes it has the look of a TV movie, but with a lot of cinematic flair still there, and I was surprised of how much of the old Argnto trademarks that was still left in. Surprisingly, the picture's got a lot of mild nudity. The plot resembles a lot of Hitchcock's Rear Window and is about a film student who is a Peeping Tom who cant restrain himself from spying on his sexy neighbor and he gets in a lot of trouble for it.I thought it was a nice change to this time see Argento experiment with a different kind of a movie, and the script moves forward in a much more straightforward manner than any film he's done before.If you can live without the excessive gore, and are up for an unusually lighthearted Argento movie, mixed with some of his old visual style, then it's definitely worth a watch.