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A stylish piece of neo-noir, D.O.A. was directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel during their glory days as creators of Max Headroom. Sometimes mocked at the time for its extravagant visual imagery, this is a film which has aged better than might have been expected. Vastly reworked from the 40s original, D.O.A. stars Dennis Quaid as the burned-out campus novelist who discovers he has been fatally poisoned and sets out to find his killer in the short time left to him, along the way rediscovering his love for the life he is going to lose.
Quaid is good enough both at chain-smoking cynicism and angry zest that this becomes emotionally credible; a worryingly young Meg Ryan is excellent as the hero-worshipping sophomore he co-opts into his search. With camerawork of sometimes hallucinatory vividness, rather too many shots of fans and Ferris wheels, and Charlotte Rampling playing a dragon-lady villainess to the hilt, this is a film which teeters on the brink of camp, but has the courage of its individuality.
On the DVD: D.O.A. comes to disc with almost no special features whatever save for a Spanish soundtrack and subtitles in Spanish and the Scandinavian languages. Its widescreen visual aspect is 1.85:1 and the Dolby sound does full justice to a very loud score by bands like Timbuk 3.--Roz Kaveney
DVD Description
Feature Length: 93 mins Approx
Widescreen Format: 1.85:1
Language: Dolby Digital 5.1: English / Spanish
Subtitles: English, English for hard of hearing impaired, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Colour
Widescreen Format: 1.85:1
Language: Dolby Digital 5.1: English / Spanish
Subtitles: English, English for hard of hearing impaired, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Colour
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Theatrical thriller
Featurette
Cast and Crew Interviews
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Well meet Dexter (Dennis Quaid), a novelist with a long dose of writers block, now has been poisoned and his wife murdered, and now one of his students, great day so far?
He's got to find who killed them all, and why, and more importantly - why does someone want him out of the picture. He has to stay alive the full 24hrs - but more importantly, he has to crack this one open.
Pretty good film, with a great cameo by Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid plays Dex with skill and is just as good as the 40s version. I think this film has aged well, and looks good today, 20 years on, with it's great filming and film-noir remixed for the 80s style. There are some hairy scenes where things do look rather gruesome, but otherwise this is worth your 90 or so minutes.
Not groundbreaking, but still worth checking out.
He's got to find who killed them all, and why, and more importantly - why does someone want him out of the picture. He has to stay alive the full 24hrs - but more importantly, he has to crack this one open.
Pretty good film, with a great cameo by Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid plays Dex with skill and is just as good as the 40s version. I think this film has aged well, and looks good today, 20 years on, with it's great filming and film-noir remixed for the 80s style. There are some hairy scenes where things do look rather gruesome, but otherwise this is worth your 90 or so minutes.
Not groundbreaking, but still worth checking out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is an intriguing and clever film where the dying man, Dennis Quaid, has to try and work backwards to find out who poisoned him. A novel reversal of a story. I loved it.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
excellent film
18 April 2004
Format:DVD
This film rocks! it has a great story,great acting and a cool tone. Im not a fan of films that tell you how it ends at the start,but this is a sly @ stylish exception.It has fine camera work and direction.quaid and ryan are dynamite.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
One of the best videos that I have ever seen!
15 Mar 1999
D.O.A. has got to be one of the best movies ever created! Not only was it beautifully acted by Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, but it was so intense that there was never a moment where you would consider turning it off. Quaid plays an English professor that has been given a deadly poison that gives him only 24 hours to live. He decides to spend the rest of his time alive finding his killer. From accusing one of his students (Ryan) to thinking that it was another one of his students lovers, it keeps you wondering the entire time who did it. With plenty of action and romance tied into this cunning adventure, you will never regret giving D.O.A. the chance it deserves in your video collection.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Great suspense!
1 Dec 1998
DOA is the film that brought together Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan. Both are superb in this remake and one of the movies that showed Dennis REALLY could act but for some reason he didn't get the acclaim and stardom peers like Mel Gibson & Kevin Costner still enjoy today.
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