This film is all about the BUS BOMB SEQUENCE! Man, was that brilliant! Filled with suspense! Tick-tack tick-tack.... (focus on clocks as it nears 1:45).... Yeah, real grim from Alfred Hitchcock! Poor ginger. He was such a sweet child.

And Sabotage is a quality production even without that legendary film moment. Hitchcock captures Sylvia Sidney magic in so many shots. From her stunning smile to that more gloomy and worried look she's so good at. Oskar Homolka becomes a believable heartless man. Dark, seemingly gentle, but in the end cold. And John Loder manages to become the gentleman hero winning you over during the course of the film. Sabotage creates the dynamic that Secret Agent (the Hitchcock movie, not the book Sabotage was based on) was lacking and Hitchcock is on the right course again!

"Unbelievable terrorists cause havoc in pre-war London."

A fun little Alfred Hitchcock movie that has a scene in it that I would imagine was quite shocking in 1936. Even if I saw that sequence happen in a movie today it would surprise me and catch me off guard.

cock incorporates more great optical effects into this early British film about a cinema-owner who gets involved with a bombing plot that claims the life of his son. The story isn’t the most original aspect of the film, but Hitchcock tells it in a painstakingly measured fashion and wrings all the suspense out of the plot. A fine diversion.

This film is all about the BUS BOMB SEQUENCE! Man, was that brilliant! Filled with suspense! Tick-tack tick-tack.... (focus on clocks as it nears 1:45).... Yeah, real grim from Alfred Hitchcock! Poor ginger. He was such a sweet child.

And Sabotage is a quality production even without that legendary film moment. Hitchcock captures Sylvia Sidney magic in so many shots. From her stunning smile to that more gloomy and worried look she's so good at. Oskar Homolka becomes a believable heartless man. Dark, seemingly gentle, but in the end cold. And John Loder manages to become the gentleman hero winning you over during the course of the film. Sabotage creates the dynamic that Secret Agent (the Hitchcock movie, not the book Sabotage was based on) was lacking and Hitchcock is on the right course again!

Maybe it's because I watched Hitchcock's brilliant 'Notorious' earlier today, but this just didn't feel quite up to standard.

The ideas were all there but this just didn't seem like it matched the greatness of his other films in comparison.

Listen all y'all, this is Hitch's exercise in form and function - check out the two critical sequences for examples on how to set a scene properly for maximum tension.

Too brisk to ever drag, this early Hitchcock rears it's head in a triumphant last fifteen minutes. The similarities to his earlier 'Blackmail' are also very present as he nears his dip into Hollywood films. It's a shame this movie didn't get more attention in its day as audiences thought killing an old lady and a cute dog was going 'too far.'

Since this is a Hitchcock film, I had my expectations reasonably high for it. But while the directing is, as always, masterful, the plot leaves much to be desired. Hitchcock is rightly reputed as the master of suspense, and this is a suspense film… but it’s not suspenseful. As soon as the bomb was sent on its way, I knew exactly what was going to unfold there. Any tension was defused by the combination of knowing what was coming, and a small degree of rooting for it because of the unintended victim being rather on the irritating side. Read full review.

Watered down Hitchcock, still entertaining and worth a watch.

HIJOSDEPUTA

A modest film from Alfred Hitchcock's earlier Britain filmography. The story is typical Hitchcock but and in Hitchcockian fashion, suspense is present in just about every scene. The climax alone is one of the most suspenseful sequences I have seen. It's definitely worth a watch...I mean, come on, it's Hitchcock!