Smart, sensible, decent, serious but not lecturing; Europe will love it too.

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 1998)

Dealing with such heavy matters (death and missions of life) in Hollywood could have made the movie slip into a terrible or despisable experience. It never does here. Martin Brest did an amazing job in perfectly balancing all the elements to smartly entertain with taste while keeping the spiritual themes alive to feed our brains. Cliches and easy shortcuts are smartly avoided. Lot of finesse. Each actor is really brilliant and created true characters in such a way that you never think of their previous roles. They appear true to the heart. For those comparing it with the recent "City of Angel", this one goes many steps deeper. Congratulations and many thanks.