Death And Joe Black

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2011)

The cycle of life on Earth hangs in the balance when Death becomes emotionally involved in this romantic fantasy film entitled,Meet Joe Black.It stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Claire Forlani together with Jake Weber,Marcia Gay Harden and Jeffrey Tambor.The film was loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday.This was the second pairing of Hopkins and Pitt after their 1994 film Legends Of The Fall.This was directed by Martin Brest.
William Parrish is a tremendously wealthy and powerful man who oversees a worldwide multi-media empire. Despite the loss of his wife, whom he dearly loved, William is content with his life, and he's very close to his two daughters, Allison and Susan. One night, as William is fighting a hostile takeover of his company and Allison is planning an elaborate party to celebrate her dad's 65th birthday, William begins displaying the symptoms of a severe heart attack, and he is visited by a mysterious stranger, Joe Black. Joe is actually the angel of death, who has taken the form of a man who recently passed on to pay William a call. It seems that William is due to move on to the next world, but he doesn't want to go. Joe, on the other hand, is curious to know what life is like for mere mortals, so the two men strike a deal -- William will have some time to get his affairs in order, and Joe will wait and see what it's like to be a human being. Joe decides that he likes it very much when he falls in love with Susan, but negotiating the slippery slopes of romance is no easier for Joe than for any ordinary man.
This is film is long.The story was uneventful.Also,it does not generate great interest to the viewer. But nevertheless,the cast did everything they could to make this an above average film. Despite of what has been said previously,it still would generate enough entertainment and satisfaction.