Duel (Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Duel (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Classic unsung Spielberg
Summary: 5 Stars
Who would think that a simple story about a businessman taking a routine trip across California highways could turn into a riveting, on the edge of your seat thriller?
No flying saucers, no giant sharks...just an average business trip where Dennis Weaver happens to pass the wrong truck - and heerrre we go!
Dennis Weaver is excellent - his low key demeanor at the start, laughing at the absurd talk radio and then out on the two lane desert road, he comes across a tiredly slow moving, smoke belching, eye sore of a tanker truck.
All the scenes are so real and the simplicity of the characters is truly artistic. Just some folks at a diner, thinking he is crazy when he tries to express his panic regarding the maniac truck driver....the bland discussion with his wife on the phone, his sheer frustration in trying to identify the driver, the combination old style gas station and snake store! HA! The kids in the school bus....and of course - the chase! Everything is so authentic and this film is timeless. Although it was shot in 1971...it could still play out today in 2009. An early view at the insidious game of road rage. Buy this film, sit back and enjoy the ride!
Movie Review: Duel- A Speilberg classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has been reviewed many times on the basis of 'man vs. technology'. I believe a closer look at the nuances presented in the movie show an excellent metaphor of 'man (Mann?) vs. his fears'. We are allowed to over hear the phone in radio show on Mann's (Dennis Weaver) car radio. The show highlighting how the caller is no longer master of his own house and the fears he has on how to handle it. That is echoed when Mann stops for gas. The station attendant says 'you're the boss' while Mann replies with 'not in my house' Mann's phone conversation with his wife reinforces his character of trying to hide his fears and not deal with them.
The truck is the symbol of his fears and his way of handling them, or rather avoiding them. He can't stop and let them pass by, they will always be there farhter down the road, as the truck is. He can't out run them as they will always be tailgating. Throughout all this we never identify the truck driver as that fact is unimportant.
Mann is finally backed to a corner where he has to either die or face his fears. He does face them with interesting results.
An excellent movie that should be looked at beyond the car vs. truck Duel.
Movie Review: Wow!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw the movie today, and for the first time -I was born in 1978 (the movie is from 1971) so it didn't appeal to me out of nostalgic-values. This movie is mean, it is fast, it is unlike anything else I've ever seen. The camera-work and direction is really impressive for a debut-movie (Spielbergs'), and even though the first minutes make you wonder if you should throw the dvd out of the window because of the "bad" picture-quality that reminds you instantly of a Charles Bronson "Deathwish2-B-movie", well, give it just a couple of minutes more, and I promise you that you will sit tightened to your seat (or chair or whatever).
Duel is a "forgotten" classic, it is Jaws on the road! Why haven't I been told about this movie?!
To make the movie look the way it does must have required a LOT of planning, not to mention brains -and this because: No matter how simple the story may be, no matter how easy it looks the crew had no computer-help in 1971 for good effects other than editing and what was arranged to happen infront of the camera.
My compliments to Spielberg and his cameramen, and editor. A masterpiece!
Movie Review: Spielberg at his best
Summary: 5 Stars
Long before Close Encounters, Steven Spielberg helmed this dynamite suspense film in 1971, a powerful tale which seamlessly combines paranoia and road rage, based on an equally strong short story by Richard Matheson (same title).Dennis Weaver plays the nameless suburbanite, a salesman road warrior who gets caught up in a horrific battle with another nameless guy, a trucker who drives a huge semi that repeatedly cuts Weaver off on the road and frustrates him just as repeatedly by moving so slowly the frantically impatient Weaver's edginess boils over into outright dementia.
The trucker is not only nameless, but invisible; Weaver never really sees him. In a great and very disturbing scene in a typical truck stop diner, Weaver sees a lineup of similarly attired guys at the counter and tries to figure out which one is the demented trucker.
The pacing in this film is flawless, and Weaver's acting has never been better. The ending is a perfect culmination of the momentum that is so effectively built during the course of the film.
For a terrific movie going experience, rent or buy this one. It's a real gem.
Movie Review: Heart Pumping From Start to Finish
Summary: 5 Stars
David Mann is a traveling salesman with a wife, two kids, and a car that is on it's last life. On his way to a business meeting he gets behind an old, greasy diesel that is going extremely slow. Getting annoyed with the bad smell and the slow speed, Mann passes the truck, which starts his hellish nightmare of a game of cat and mouse.
"Duel" can only be described as a heart pumping, adrenaline rushing film from start to finish. You begin to lose all perception that you're just watching a movie and you end up being put in the driver's seat, sharing David Mann's nightmare with him.
It's easy to tell that Spielberg was on his way to the top when he directed this film. The brilliant score, perfect direction, and great acting by Dennis Weaver as the innocent and soon madly driven David Mann will leave you on edge from the second he gets behind the diesel until the climatic ending.
Five stars is not enough to give such a brilliant film as this 70's classic by Spielberg. If you have yet to see this film, then be sure to purchase your copy and buckle up for one hell of a good ride!