FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Mark (Sean Connery) blackmails a kleptomaniac into marrying him, and then not only forces himself on her, but also forces her to confront her past, and learn why she is so terrified of the colour red.Marnie, the character, is damaged goods.Marnie, the film, is damaged goods also.It's a character-driven story, but every character is either unlikeable, or uninvolving. Marnie is a good, but not *great* Hitchcock flick, and, especially at that time, coming right after things like Psycho, and The Birds, and North By Northwest, and Vertigo, good wasn't good enough. A lot of fans probably were not expecting a more low key, subtle, psychological romance thriller, which is what we got with Marnie. No elaborate chases on My. Rushmore, no killer with split personalities. It was too much of a departure for some. While it is a beautiful looking, well filmed effort (excluding some atrocious backdrops, which occasionally look like a painting one might see in a dentist's office) its pacing also lags, and Sean Connery (in a hideous looking hairpiece) is just simply there. He's not bad here, but he seems to be miscast to me, like he was given the role in hopes plot a James Bond/ Hitchcock crossover success.Marnie is still worthwhile, but not a film I am in any hurry to rewatch, and not a good starting point for someone not already a fan of Hitchcock.

Hitchcoc Even as a teenager, I would never miss a Hitchcock movie. Marnie was one of the most puzzling of all of them. To start with, she is such damaged goods. She is quite beautiful as are all of Hitch's sultry blondes from Grace Kelly to Kim Novak. Tippi Hedren was physically abused by the demands of Hitchcock on the set of "The Birds." Sean Connery comes along an blackmails this young woman into marrying him. It would be better than jail. Of course, Connery wants the whole thing, and yet this young woman is resistant to anything sexual. The problem is that he is rich and she is beholden to him for saving her from prison. As time goes by, she has several dramatic incidents, including an attempted suicide. The secret for all this lies with her mother, who is a harsh, critical woman, beset by unhappiness and depression. The key to the film lies with her. This movie is quite a downer, even after it ends.

Predrag This movie really can't be classified into one category, such as a straight psychological thriller, a suspense thriller, a detective story, a mystery, a romance, etc. Whereas most Hitchcock movies put less focus on the characters and more focus on the suspense, Marnie puts most of the focus on one character and less focus on the suspense. This movie is highly personal and psychological. This movie stars 'Tippi' Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Louise Latham, Mariette Hartley, Martin Gabel, and Alan Napier. Hedren plays the role of Margaret "Marnie" Edgar, a strange woman with psychological problems who is a professional thief, a liar, has multiple identities, and has an intense fear of men, thunderstorms, and even the color red. To sum up the plot in a nutshell, she empties her employer's safe, escapes, and changes her identity and appearance. Sean Connery plays the role of Mark Rutland, owner of a publishing company that Marnie applies for a new job at. Marnie robs him as well. He tracks her down. However, Rutland is infatuated with her. Rather than turning her in to the authorities, he convinces her to marry him, sort of like blackmail. While on their honeymoon, he realizes that she actually has a fear of men and fears intimacy. Frustrated, he gets more aggressive with her, resulting in her attempting suicide. Her intense fear of men is rooted in a traumatic childhood experience she had.Marnie is quite slow to start with, but quickly builds up to many gripping scenes. Sean Connery was currently in 1964 considered as 'hot property'in the film industry for his role as James Bond, and in Marnie his 007 character is still there in the background for all to see. Connery's performance is simply excellent and it is hard to imagine any other actor playing this part. Tippi Hedren of course, being the leading star, performs excellently and manages her role with great imagination. One aspect of older films that I've never liked much is the melodramatic music, which to me feels like the aural equivalent of purple prose, underlining and explaining every emotion. I'd guess that it's a holdover from silent cinema, when the lack of recorded sound meant a pianist in the auditorium had to provide the emotional cues. It's telling that Marnie's most suspenseful scene, with two women in a business office, one a safe-cracker, the other a cleaner, has no music. Although the search for love, approval and an attempt at emotional closure makes Marnie different from other Hitchcock films, it is still very "Hitchcock" and well worth viewing.Overall rating: 9 out of 10.

BA_Harrison Wealthy businessman Mark Rutland (Sean Connery) falls for beautiful, frigid compulsive liar and habitual thief Marnie (Tippi Hedren), and convinces her that marrying him is a better option than going to jail. After a few days of not being able to get into her pants, Mark practically forces himself upon the woman, which drives her to attempt suicide. Not one to give up, he endeavours to get to the bottom of the childhood trauma that has made his new wife such a screw-up.Even the greatest of directors can have the occasional mis-step; Marnie is one of Alfred Hitchcock's 'stumbles', the director putting his foot wrong on more than one occasion during the telling of this rather unremarkable psychological mystery.Technically, the film is undeniably sub-standard in places, with some awful rear-projection and painted backdrops that serve to pull the viewer out of the story. Performance wise, Tippi Hedren isn't quite up to the task, her role as the disturbed titular character requiring more subtlety than the actress can muster. In terms of basic storytelling, Hitchcock's film is both painfully slow and extremely talkative, and when all is said and done (with more being said than done), the pay-off simply isn't worth all of the tedious Freudian psycho-babble and overwrought drama.The only scene that even comes close to prime Hitchcock is when Marnie breaks into Rutland's safe: as she tiptoes barefoot out of the building, past the cleaner and guard, the shoes in her pockets gradually begin to fall out, providing some nail-biting tension. It's a shame there wasn't a lot more like this to liven up proceedings throughout.