Painfully slow pace ruins the potential . . .

Rating: 5/10 (16 November 1998)

Meet Joe Black offered an interesting premise that could have worked had the pacing been far faster (the running time on this film is 180 minutes). Susan (Claire Forlani) says it best within the first ten minutes of the film "Give me the abridged version." Forlani, by the way, lights up the big screen. She creates her own chemistry (i.e. no need for Brad Pitt as her leading man). Hopkins delivers his usual sound performance, and even Pitt pulled off his role rather well.