"Too bad. They can't play it for you now, Rose."Niagra failed to get me very interested from the very start, so you might as well know now that this won't be a very enthusiastic review. I sort of drifted through most of it, only paying attention enough to know what was going on. It's not a bad film, but I doubt I'll
see it again.It takes place near Niagara Falls, as Marilyn Monroe plays an unfaithful and treacherous wife who plans to have her husband killed. A visiting couple on their honeymoon gets unknowingly mixed up in the plot, and the plan falls apart in a way that ends up putting nearly everyone in danger.This was my first Monroe movie, and while she was certainly beautiful, I found my eyes drawn to her co-star Jean Peters much more often. She stole the movie, as far as I'm concerned. I'd say that discovering her made the movie worth my time, I'm certainly going to check out more of her work.Other than that, I found Niagara to be a pretty forgettable thriller set in a very beautiful place, and even the gorgeous surroundings aren't really taken advantage of on the screen. Some movies just don't catch a person's interest, for whatever reason, and Niagara is the most recent example of that, for me.
June 12, 2010
