Story was alright, enough slow moments to stand out.

Rating: 4/10 (11 November 1998)

After watching a preview of this movie, I found myself split on both liking and disliking it. At times, it seemed that the movie was trying to go for cinematography. There were moments of silence (w/o any background music) to try to engulf the audience, which can be fine, however I felt that it lasts much too long. "Meet Joe Black" could have been trimmed to a 2.5 hr movie instead of a 3 hr one. To its credit however, whenever things got slow (and you wanted to hit the Fast Forward button) a humorous moment followed as if to get the audience back into the movie. There were quite a few lines that were memorable and worth quoting with as well as humorous moments. But there were enough slow moments in the film that you walk away with at the end. The three hours went by relatively quickly enough, but again certain scenes could have been shortened and still retained the feel and intent of the scene itself.