Really, Really Long

Rating: 5/10 (5 October 2009)

Anthony Hopkins is wonderful in this film. Marsha Gay Harden was also spot on.
Brad Pitt...well, that was a head scratcher. Can't say that I would know how to play death and it appeared Mr. Pitt did not either. The only thing I could gather from the performance was that death appears to have Asperger's.
The film was very long and drawn out, scene after scene. If there had been more delivered, that would have been fine but the film seemed to be so enchanted with it's "deep" message that it just KNEW we would need lots and lots of time in every scene to take it all in. Ummm, nope, not that deep, tell me the story and move it along, thank you very much.
Beautifully filmed but plodding and overly enamored with itself. Could have been a real gem in the right hands.