Death meets love

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 1999)

There's a trend to make films about angels, messengers of death and the Evil one himself. Here's another example of Hollywood's obsession with the supernatural and how the culture clash happens when someone not from this world is thrown into the pot of the big city. This could be Crocodile Dundee 3 if except for the crocodiles themselves. William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), industrial leader, father of 2, on the verge of dying, one night hears a voice inside his head. What to do and who was it? Death arrives a couple of hours later in the shape of Joe Black (Brad Pitt)knocking on the front door at a late dinner in Parrish's huge mansion.
Of course Death falls in love with Parrish's youngest daughter, Susan, who of course is already with a cocky young executive at her dad's communication company. From here on the movie starts to play with the idea of what happens if Death starts to get human feelings. It's a little bit like Terminator 2 where Arnie's robot finds himself caring for the people he is supposed to protect. All this happens while Bill Parrish is trying to save his company on the last days of his life, saving his life monument and besides his daughters, the only positive thing he's done in his life.
Hopkins is by far the film's best actor but this is not a very good movie. It lacks from conflict, it's too much of City of Angels and not enough of The Devil's advocat's provocativeness. All in all, a movie that all Pitt lovers will cherish because of his "cute" hair but for the one who wants something mind challening, watch something else.