Our main character is Guy, a super hot tennis player caught in a bitter divorce with his ex-wife. He's riding on the train when approached by a man named Bruno Antony. He seems okay, and is a fan of Guy. So, being a sports celebrity, it is relativity easy to find out about him. It's not like today, with facebook and instagram, where everyone puts there info online and it's incredibly easy to stalk anyone. Bruno knows about Guy's ex-wife and how he feels about her. He then proposes his amazing idea of the perfect murder - to switch murders so both parties have no motive yet get rid of their victims. Now is the time to scooch away as far as you can. But, nope. Guy makes a bad decision and condescendingly nods and listens to Bruno's grand idea.
Bruno wants to kill his father, because his father wants him to get a job. So, murder is totally the best route here. But, Bruno knows he will be arrested because of his motive. So his idea is to kill Guy's ex-wife while Guy kills his father, so neither will be caught. Guy just entertains his idea, not realizing he is 100% serious. I think Robert Walker's performance of Bruno is probably the best part of watching this film.
So Guy goes to see his ex-wife, who is the town bicycle (because everyone's had a ride). His ex-wife is pregnant with someone else's baby. She decides that since Guy finally has money and fame from his tennis career, she's going to refuse to divorce him, ruining his chances to marry his girlfriend. She is such a slut bitch and Guy is furious. He yells that he wants to strangle her. Bruno, meanwhile, stalks her for a bit, and then actually strangles her.
Bruno waits for Guy outside his house, and informs he what he's done. Guy is horrified that he was serious. He wants to go to the police, but Bruno talks him out of it. Another bad decision by Guy.
Later, Bruno realizes that Guy isn't going to kill his father like he'd hoped. He decides to plant evidence to convict him of his ex-wife's murder. Guy's girlfriend tries to help, but makes it worse. She is also smart enough to figure out what's going on without anyone telling her.
The only bad part about this film, which forces me to lower the score, is the carousel scene. Guy and Bruno are fighting on the carousel and it explodes. What. What a cheap ending, all this intriguing stuff going on, and you're going to make a carousel explode. That makes no kind of sense. I don't like that at all. The cops want to arrest them, and Guy wants Bruno to confess. Bruno dies, and his evidence falls out of his hand. If Guy would have just gone to the police a long time ago, and explained everything, none of this would happen. So the moral of the film is, don't make bad decisions or a carousel will explode. Still not one of the best Hitchcock films, but it's better than Rope cause that movie succkked. I will give this film a 6/10.
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