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Mate's direction of the first portion of the story lingers too long over it, spreading the expectancy very thin, but when he does launch his suspense-building it comes over with a solid wallop. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Mate's direction of the first portion of the story lingers too long over it, spreading the expectancy very thin, but when he does launch his suspense-building it comes over with a solid wallop.
Variety Staff
Incidental pleasures include a bevy of suspiciously beautiful women... the wide lapels and fedoras favored by the heavies, and the ''in'' talk of the period, featuring words like ''hip,'' ''jive'' and ''kicks.'' Mar 25, 2006 | Full Review…
Incidental pleasures include a bevy of suspiciously beautiful women... the wide lapels and fedoras favored by the heavies, and the ''in'' talk of the period, featuring words like ''hip,'' ''jive'' and ''kicks.''
Walter Goodman
Maté shoots fast and always to the point as he drives his protagonist through endless doorways and rooms which are like trapdoors and boxes in an accelerating nightmare. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
Maté shoots fast and always to the point as he drives his protagonist through endless doorways and rooms which are like trapdoors and boxes in an accelerating nightmare.
...an underwhelming thriller that could and should have fared so much better. Oct 27, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
...an underwhelming thriller that could and should have fared so much better.
David Nusair
[VIDEO ESSAY] A high-concept movie before there was such a thing, "D.O.A." foreshadowed the poisoning of (possibly) Yasser Arafat and (definitely) Alexander Litvinenko - via polonium-210 - by a half-century. Apr 27, 2014 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
[VIDEO ESSAY] A high-concept movie before there was such a thing, "D.O.A." foreshadowed the poisoning of (possibly) Yasser Arafat and (definitely) Alexander Litvinenko - via polonium-210 - by a half-century.
Cole Smithey
Sweltering Borgesian fantasy Feb 4, 2010 | Full Review…
Sweltering Borgesian fantasy
Fernando F. Croce
Apesar de determinados elementos que não envelheceram bem (como as referências na trilha às paqueras do herói), tem uma premissa fascinante que consegue gerar boa dose de suspense. Jun 6, 2007 | Rating: 4/5
Apesar de determinados elementos que não envelheceram bem (como as referências na trilha às paqueras do herói), tem uma premissa fascinante que consegue gerar boa dose de suspense.
Pablo Villaça
Rudolph Maté's seminal thriller rapidly decomposes into a campy, confusing bore. May 1, 2006
Rudolph Maté's seminal thriller rapidly decomposes into a campy, confusing bore.
Nick Schager
It stands as one of the finest of the post-war B thrillers. Apr 8, 2005 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It stands as one of the finest of the post-war B thrillers.
David Cornelius
Features a murder victim who acts as a detective to solve his own murder. Nov 7, 2004 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
Features a murder victim who acts as a detective to solve his own murder.
Dennis Schwartz
A clever ruse for suspense. Jul 30, 2003 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A clever ruse for suspense.
Crafty, potent little noir. Jan 17, 2003 | Rating: 5/5
Crafty, potent little noir.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
1950, when this noir was made, was a long time ago (nearly 70 years as of this writing). The wolf whistles played whenever a pretty woman's onscreen (which I first suspected were included after the fact of the filming by some internet prankster), Neville Brand's over-the-top "I'm a craaa-zzzzy psycho" routine, much here seems dated now, but the suspense of watching a dead man search for his killer still packs a wallop. And makes for a good movie experience.
Super Reviewer
"I want to report a murder." "Who was murdered?" "I was." One of the great "grabber" openings in movie history doesn't disappoint, leading to a tense and fatalistic noir about a poisoned accountant searching for his own killer.
Frank Bigelow is an accountant living on borrowed time. Someone has slipped luminous toxin into his bourbon and now he has just a few days to solve his own murder. D.O.A. is over-acted, over-scripted and under-appreciated. An absolute delight!
An extremely exciting, suspenseful movie, a really good movie.
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