Meet with boredom...

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2003)

Remake of a movie launched in 1934 and whose name was "Death takes a holiday", "Meet Joe Black" must be very inferior to the original movie although I didn't see it. This is the typical movie with a good idea but badly exploited. Here, death is epitomized by a good-looking young man (Brad Pitt) and he'd like to know why men dread so much death. He's settling down in the life of a well-off man (Anthony Hopkins) and his daughter falls in love with Pitt.
"Meet Joe Black" is a movie whose result isn't convincing at all. The screenplay is very repetitive with annoying cues (Pitt who often asks for peanut butter) and contains a few weaknesses like Pitt's weird car crash at the beginning of the movie. Besides, this is probably one of Pitt's weakest performances to date. He leans too much on his physical appearance and I find him too inexpressive.
It's also a movie that is terribly long-winded and it drags on. A flat and listless film-making doesn't help matters. It focuses too much on the actors' faces as if it wanted to define their feelings.
At last, this is an overlong movie and in three hours you find time to be bored because nearly nothing's happening. A dull and tiresome movie where you only remember Claire Forlani's shiny beauty