too long, but worth a look

Rating: 5/10 (15 November 1998)

Death wants to check out life, so he borrows Brad Pitt's body and crashes at the pad of a multi-millionaire (Anthony Hopkins), who just happens to be a nice guy with a beautiful daughter about to marry a snake. If death always made such good choices, only the bad would die young. The death character is inconsistent. At times, he appears omniscient. He seems to know every sin some of the characters ever committed and he's familar with the IRS (is there a connection here?). But he has to be told what peanut butter is and has to be shown how to eat!
Like Brest's "Scent of a Woman", this film is too long but satisfying in the way good characters triumph over bad. And, as death films go, it's much better than "What Dreams May Come". In fact, it even has a more dramatic and shattering car accident.My score 7/10.