Brad Pitt gets run over....what's not to like?

Rating: 7/10 (11 September 2006)

Well...OK, I guess there are a few things.
For one, the movie is a loooong one. Most of this is due to the "meaningful" pauses between exchanges of dialogue. Sometimes this is actually teeth-grittingly painful to be subjected to and you want to almost scream at them to say something, anything, instead of staring at each other.
The second thing that detracted from the film was Anthony Hopkins. He's a fine actor, to be sure, but here he seemed almost totally bored with proceedings. Some of his lines are mind-numbingly delivered. Sometimes he actually seems to be struggling to remember them. He's like someone's old grandad that was asked to fill in when the real actor failed to show.
Pitt is his usual wooden self, though here that actually works in his favour as he comes across even more oddly than usual.
But despite these failings, the movie still succeeds in its romantic notion that Death can learn love and that things kind of turn out for the best in the end.
In short, it is worth a watch at least once. But I don't think you'll get much more out of it by sitting through it more than that. Not convinced? Well, my partner decided to watch it on TV the other night, adamant that she hadn't yet seen it, only to admit about half-way through that she recalled it from a few years back.
If that doesn't tell you how unmemorable most of it is, I don't know what will.