A touchy feelie "Death" explores earth

Rating: 1/10 (4 November 2012)

Hollywood periodically decides to take ultimate superhuman spirit concepts such as God/The Devil/Death/Angels/etc personifies them and enters them into some little human dramas. In this iteration Death is a human form god; the human drama includes a dying billionaire some hostile politics in a company board room, the IRS (did the writers intend some humor? death/taxes) and of course the central boy meets girl romance.
Using Death as a Pluto like God is bit odd especially in a non horror movie.
In this high dollar rendition ($90 million),Death takes over the dead body of Brad Pitt and makes a Faust like deal with Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins a billionaire with heart problems can live a few more days until a birthday party his daughters are giving him--if he acts as guide to show death around earth. How imbecilic and trite is it possible to get? Death is one of those poor somehow shackled superhuman spirits who doesn't know what life on earth is like.. Basically a pack of idiotic garbage on every level. Death predictably falls in love with Hopkin's daughter and wants to take her with him a la Prosperpine.
OK, fine how is this plot carried off as a film? Well apparently if Brad Pitt looks cow eyed and says nothing for long periods that is what Death/Pluto would do. Grand epic serious music indicates (how else can you say it?) life and death themes are in play. But the scenes are too long and nothing unpredictable happens. We know everything that is going to happen so there is no suspense. This movie is a long boring trite drag.
The use of a touchie feelie Death spirit and the utterly mundane conventional human side of the story--it is all really an insult to your intelligence. I also really hate movies that put a sign every 10 seconds on how you are supposed to think and feel.
By the way this movie grossed $140 million and cost $90 million. What do I know about making money with movies?
DO NOT RECOMMEND.