Long on visuals, short on action.

Rating: 6/10 (13 March 1999)

If your main reason going to the movies is to see Brad Pitt going through every imaginable facial expression (and a bit of his pectorals) then you'll probably enjoy most of these three hours. Claire Forlani has a wondrously enigmatic face, but it was too enigmatic for too long. One expects more from a film that comes from the same stable as "Scent of a Woman." The four writers surely could have done more with the ingredients they were given. A promising young doctor and Death? They just let the opportunity slide. Anthony Hopkins did his usual performance, but possibly the best act was Jeffrey Tambor, playing the apple-short-of-an-orchard manipulatable guy married into a New York boardroom. This movie did create one landmark: probably the longest, most protracted audience scream I've ever heard. If you see it, you'll know when it happens.