Meet Joe Black- Guess Who Should Never Come to Dinner **1/2

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2013)

The acting in this film is quite good. Sir Anthony Hopkins stars as the well-respected businessman who has been notified by an angel of death that his time is coming. Brad Pitt, made to look wooden, especially earlier in the film, is also quite good.
What I didn't like about the film was the morbid subject matter. No matter how much you talk about something else, you know invariably what is going to occur at the film's end.
There is an interesting sidebar story how the associate of Hopkins, romantically involved with his daughter, who gives another excellent performance, is really undermining the boss. How Joe Black reveals himself to this stinker at the film's end is most interesting.
To myself and others, the ending appeared to be a cop-out. I know that love prevails.