Death is the pace, shallow is the aim.

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 1999)

I really had hopes for this movie, as I think film above many arts can portray best life, death, the afterlife and things of similar magnitude. But this film was, despite the subject matter, incredibly shallow. "Love" in this film was no more than one meeting, two kisses, and a long Brad Pitt sex scene. "Family" was full of the touching smiles which you expect, but also functionality and trite pre-death resolutions which the viewer was expected to swallow with no satire. This work simply scratched all of its surfaces, never letting Hopkins explore the true consequences of his life, and never letting Pitt explore real life, save all of that peanut butter he got to taste. In short, sadly wasted potential.