Glamorous but Slow moving

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2006)

Very slow moving film which dragged in places despite the nice music which actually drowned out the actors in some places (the birthday finale for example) Brad Pitt seemed to not emote very much, even when he wasn't representing 'death' and there were too many long scenes of people staring at each other...especially the lead actress. Like a Brazilian soap. Brad Pitt is such an attractive guy he should be able to act some depth under the veneer, which he couldn't really do here. The ending is very unlikely when Death takes Anthony Hopkins off over the bridge at the end of the birthday party (you'd still want to see what happened to your dad whether you understood what was going on or not.) Nice glamorous scenes but I just wanted it to get a move on. Nice touch: the death and taxes references