Saturday, February 17, 2018

Duel (1971)


IMDb plot summary: A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, and Lou Frizzell.

The moments of this that work *really* work. It's got a very cool creepy faceless villain and is great during the tenser scenes. (Some of those shots of the truck are way more terrifying than a shot of a truck should be.) There are, however, also a lot of moments where it gets reeeeeal slow, and some of those slow scenes could have been put to use fleshing out our main character a bit.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Duel > They Made Me a Fugitive
Duel < The Front
Duel > Neighbors
Duel < The Ladykillers (2004)
Duel < The Call
Duel > Brave
Duel < Good Kill
Duel > Finding Vivian Maier
Duel < Ripley's Game
Duel > The Prestige
Duel < Now You See Me

Final spot: #967 out of 2731.

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