Sore butt award

Rating: Null/10 (14 June 1999)

This film was an enigma. I applaud any director willing to make a movie with long, meandering scenes that explore characters more deeply than the average skin-deep Hollywood flick. At the same time, long and meandering coupled with boring is a bit too much to stomach. There has to be some reasonable, believable motivation, and none of these characters had it (except for the money-loving Drew). The spiritual connection between Pitt's Death and the other characters never went beyond his being courteous and properly enunciating their first names. Claire Forlani is a wonderful girl to look at, but I hate being confronted with those "only in Hollywood is she a [doctor rocket scientist primate researcher]" characters.
I like watching people muse about life and death, and it's great to see writers tackling interesting approaches to the subject. Some people will undoubtedly connect to this film. I didn't. This gets the sore-butt award of the week.