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Critics Consensus: Glacially slow, uneventful.
Critic Consensus: Glacially slow, uneventful.
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You just feel like you're dragging a set of dumbbells around with you while you're watching it.
Long but never boring, spiritual but never soggy, this is the brand of big entertainment Hollywood is best at but so rarely does right these days.
Is weighed down by a tediously slow pace and overwrought production values.
Un buen ejercicio sobre ideas de amor... de muerte y del camino que todos vamos a seguir en algún momento...
The latest masterpiece to fall victim to cynicism.
There's a decent two-hour movie buried within the three hours of Meet Joe Black, a classic instance of a filmmaker overvaluing his material beyond all good sense.
Brestian (adj.) Bloated, boring, and long-winded, as in "Meet Joe Black is Brestian in scope and to be avoided if you have a weak bladder."
This movie grows on me. The story is interesting, the relationships formed are special, and the acting was great. I didn't realize until I did some research that this is the third time this story has been filmed -- the first two are called Death Takes a Holiday - in 1934 and 1971. I found the story intriguing - "Death" trying out life. I will have to see the earlier versions.
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Suspension of disbelief might have helped enjoy this movie had the pacing be not so sluggish. It simply gives too much time to think about the characters' illogical actions when it ought to have moved swiftly. There are simply too many flaws in the movie to be able to enjoy it enough.
This movie really makes no sense, but I still enjoy it a lot by the grace of the willowy and wounded Claire Forlani. Death has been around since the beginning of time (just ballparking it), so how is he still so ignorant about friendship, passion, sex, success, greed, revenge - the ways of the world, essentially, including colloquialisms about Death and taxes? One would think he'd have a human dalliance every decade at least. The character is written to be a wide-eyed simpleton, and they had to pick the actor with the worst face and voice for that: Brad Pitt. He's so dead-eyed and dumb-sounding.
A very interesting film that I found to be really cool, however not as great as I had expected, it was very long an got stupid at times.
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