Rating: 
Summary: I loved it!
Review: Three hours. Was it too long? Not at all. When you think about it, what would you leave out? Nothing. Each piece of the plot, every scene is a gentle step to the next. I LOVED it and would love to see it again. It's a great story that doesn't need special effects or explosions to support it. The acting was good. Brad Pitt was at his best. He was gorgeous, funny, romantic, and dashing. I highly recommend this film.
Rating:
Summary: Can I give it 6 stars?
Review: I have seen this movie about 10 times now. I hope this DVD never wears out. It is surely one of the best movies I have ever seen. Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani are all excellent. I found it exciting, romantic and emotive. It is 3 hours long but that time seems to pass in the blink of an eye. If you haven't seen this film, you are missing out.
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Summary: A very silly film
Review: If death takes a holiday shouldn't everyone in the world stop dying? Now that would be an interesting premise for a film. Death, it seems, is not a socialist. He admires and wishes to learn from a rich, successful capitalist rather than someone who has foresaken worldly goods in the service of the poor, for instance, or a prisoner of conscience in some gulag somewhere. The wine list is terrible in those places and anyway, death knows what 'The Stranglers' know, that is, it's only the children of the wealthy that tend to be good looking. Although they put it in more Anglo Saxon terms, if memory serves. The industrialist is played by Anthony Hopkins who obviously seems to view himself as an elder statesman to such an extent that he barely appears to be in the picture. He is smug and avuncular and you expect him to break out into a royal wave at any moment. Rather than lend a hand to some poor peasant whose about to have their land taken away from them by a tyrant, death lends a hand to a walking dollar sign in a less than scintilating boardroom battle that is supposed to have us laughing and cheering. Death is a bit repugnant, it seems.Slow and long, the director fancies this as his 'Being There', only you get Pitt instead of Sellars. Pitt is gorgeous but looking at that face for three hours is like gorging on a box of chockies. Too much of a good thing makes you want to throw. Death bends his own rules and let's a very good looking man go on living, presumably because blood on such a sharp suit may ruin any future job interview as a male model. We can't have that, can we? As the fireworks explode and the camera pulls back on a scene of outdoor opulance, we are reminded that it's a hard life for the privileged in letting go. No longer will they be able to watch films which make them feel good about being American. I mean, death loves America. He loves low cut dresses. If I should meet Joe Black, I'll know what to say. "Lend us a fiver, Joe, the lights have gone out and I need to feed the meter."
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Summary: Meet Joe Black
Review: A superb film. I was totally hooked. Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt are superb. The story is, of course, exceptional. I patricularly liked the engaging way this young whipper snapper (Death) barged his way around in an imperious but strangely charming way with a strong streak of naivite. It was quite funny in many ways. A film to luxuriously drown in!
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Summary: Rich with pregnant pauses and a lot more
Review: Meet Joe Black has a lot in common with "Heaven Can Wait": Wealthy industrialist must meet his death, and love and a fortune hang in the balance, but does it with a more serious, sensitive and ponderous style. This is a wonderful, deep, meditative, and amusing film, with more than a few improbable plot twists. Claire Forlani's fluttering, warm eyes carry more information and subtlety per second of screen time than those of nearly any other actor or actress. Wow! Those eyes are a major visual component of this movie! Forlani is fantastic! Thomas Newman's score is great, great, great. I can listen to it again and again. Anthony Hopkins is fascinating to watch, as always. His powerful stride, his gestures, every deference to the routine, the duties, the responsibilities will draw you into Hopkin's carefully sculptured world. There is a place at the end where things fall apart a little bit...again probably attributable to excessive length of editing. Mr. Brest and the screenwriter are to be congratulated for the unique style they bring to this film...quirky, rich with pregnant pauses, thoughtful. A great cast all around. Not perfect, but striving to achieve greatness. I love it.
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Summary: Final cut is not a toy
Review: This risible movie falls just short of being a legendary disaster. Barring it from greatness are its ultra-glossy production values, the always wonderful Anthony Hopkins, and the undeniable charisma of Brad Pitt who (though it kills me to say it) survives even such dignity-threatening scenes as the hospital visit to the Jamaican woman in respectable shape. That said, this is still the most excruciatingly protracted screen death since "Cries and Whispers". I trust that the enormous financial failure of this movie will guarantee that Martin Brest is never allowed final cut again.
Rating: 
Summary: Utter nonsense
Review: Nonsense plot, only manipulative effects used here. Thomas Newmans musik normally elevates the film experience, here is is implemented in a manipulative manner, and seemingly endlessly (although somewhere I think I heard Arvo Pärt's Fratres, often wonder why I never encountered that piece in a movie before). Claire Forlani's is constantly filmed with reflections in her eyes, how romaantic. Death falls in love! Blaaaahhh
Rating:
Summary: Pretentious, absurd, boring, Pitt-iful!
Review: An absurd plot premise, leaden acting from the romantic leads,
long, empty head shots, heavy-handed directing, an utter
lack of movement or action, even the romance is senseless
and illogical. Positively painful to watch. A film suitable
only for Pitt-iphiliacs who can endure countless repetitions
of his two facial expressions - coyly feigned incomprehension,
the dawning sly smile. Pardon while I puke....
Rating:
Summary: One of the BEST Movies Ever
Review: I came into watching this movie with a very open mind, because I had heard mixed reviews about it. But I was immediately captured as soon as the third scene started! The only reason I got this movie was because I loved Hannibal Lecter, and wanted to see Anthony Hopkins in another role. But at the end of the movie, I was loving it, not only for Hopkins' wonderful performance. Every performer, especially Brad Pitt who's character is quite different then the regular person, gives a tremendous performance. Each character is unique in one way or another, and they all work together wonderfully. The story-line is fabulous as well. This movie tells us a lot about romance, and relationships between not only boyfriend/girlfriend, but father/daughter, and sister/sister, and such...The end did drag on a bit at times, but I truely did love the VERY end. The only thing I didn't find clear was this: (and I don't think it's a spoiler, but beware!) Did she know the truth, or not? No matter what, this is a tear-jerker, but this is someone who seems to cry at every movie, even Action movies. THe length never matters with this movie. It's beautiful, stunning, captivating...just perfect. If you love good romances, this is the perfect movie for you.
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Summary: Critics Be Damned!
Review:
Meet Joe Black is a wonderful fantasy in the true classic Hollywood tradition. Performances are excellent all around, and romance just doesn't get more soul-stirring than this. I believe that time will be good to this film. Once the brutal reviews are forgotten Meet Joe Black will gain a much wider, and more appreciative, audience.
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