Terrible, awful, ack

Rating: 1/10 (13 January 2006)

Preamble - I started watching this movie on TV about 20 minutes in - just after the helicopter ride into NYC, and I had no idea what I was watching or what to expect...but here goes...
While I can understand where people might like this movie because of the whole death dealing with life angle and whatever else people can pull from this three hour waste of time, there are several things that make absolutely NO SENSE and require the viewer to abandon any sense of logic, which for me, totally destroys this movie.
1) After what's-her-name meets that incredibly charming young man in the coffee shop, they go their separate ways. While they each take turns looking back at each other, that charming young man gets plowed into by several cars, an accident he cannot possibly have survived. This totally rules out the chance of him meeting what's-her-name in the hospital. Next scene is Hopkins hearing and talking to some strange voice. That voice turns out to be the voice of Death, who takes the form of that charming young man from the coffee shop!!! Turns out Death needed a body and took the poor soul from the car accident - without a bruise, scrape, or injury of any kind. Which makes me ask, what the hell? Where did he get this body? What happened to the original body that no doubt would have been picked up by the coroner and locked up in a morgue? Is that body still there? Or is it merely a facsimile of the body, which makes me ask where and at what time was this copy made? Pray to God that Death doesn't happen to run into the poor guy's friends or family.
2) Death then gets to have dinner with Hopkins and meets his family, and in walks what's-her-name. Death is NOTHING like the charming young man in the coffee shop, and is actually kind of annoying. Yet, what's-her-name manages to "fall in love" with him. How?!? Based on WHAT exactly?!?! It certainly isn't his charming demeanor - which leads me to conclude that it can only be pure lust.
3) When it's finally time for Death to take Hopkins, they walk over a bridge, and Death is replaced by the charming guy from the coffee shop who simply snaps out of it somehow and is back to his old self. What's-her-name runs over and seems to understand that her father is gone. So. Question 1 - what happens to Hopkins' body? Question 2 - how on earth do you explain the fact that this guy comes back to life? And how does what's-her-name explain and deal with the apparently massive personality disorder this guy must have, since the guy she fell in love with (Death) is in NO WAY like the guy from the coffee shop, before the accident and after he gets resurrected? Awful movie. Terrible.