Meet Joe Bore

Rating: 1/10 (15 November 1998)

Everything in this unfortunate remake of Death Takes a Holiday (1934) is so miscalculated, suffering death itself would seem even the most enjoyable vacation. Brad Pitt offers no depth, playing the role of death with all the emotion of a stick, and Hopkins snarls through yet another thankless role. Thomas Newman's overbearing score swells too many times during the film's three-hour running time, but the ending is easily foreseen after the laughable fate that awaits Pitt as a mortal early in the film. Smug, dull, uninspired moviemaking -- another example of Hollywood at its worst.