"Duel" plainly shows how incredibly talented a filmmaker young Spielberg was. Minimalistic and thrilling. Highly recommended.

There is nothing better than a ghost truck wanting to kill! The entire movie is one giant truck chase and I everyminute is perfect. Oh Spielberg you will never make anything better!

One of the few films by Spielberg (whom I admire) I hadn't watched until now (2009). Decent film with nice shots and editing, but it didn't thrill me.

This is another simple idea taken to it's limits: how many ways can we make you afraid of a big truck? Some of the filming tactics were extremely clever (watch the "making of video"). They were very fortunate to get such a good shot of the final calamity.

Excellent suspense road-movie of Spielberg, one of the best I've ever seen ! Great !

One of the best examples of redneck dementia. Don't know if it should be awarded a good score for the effort to document the emptiness or a poor one to protect the others from the stupidity, noise and disgust.

Intensive thriller without any special plot. Lacks also with good, reasonable ending.

Good ideas, slightly above average presentation on all fronts. It's a fairly deep movie but it's not as exciting as I was hoping.

Underrated thriller.

Very good execution of a simple concept, but it isn't consistently compelling. Still very impressive.

It pretty much has no story or character development and feels a bit too long but Duel is some of the best suspense filmmaking I have ever seen.

There is terrible ADR, but it is really cool and intense.

One of the first great road thrillers...can you imagine being alone & being chased by some mad trucker? & you don't even know why ...just that this guy wants to kill you???...if you ask me that's scary

There's only so much you can get out of this very thin premise but Spielberg milks it for all it's worth, showing a startling early flair that brings Duel well above its made-for-TV roots. Few films manage to conjure up the suspense created here - I remember first seeing this as a young kid and being completely transfixed - and the truck is genuinely one of the most menacing baddies in cinema history. Personally I still think the ending's a bit weak, but I suppose it had to end somehow.

Evidence that Spielberg was a force to be reckoned with well before Jaws came along. This is a nail-biter. It may be a little shallow in the character department, but that's the kind of story it is.

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