Meet Joe Black (DVD)

Meet Joe Black is in my opinion a very strange film. It's rather long at nearly 3 hours in length yet the storyline is very simple. The way in which it is constructed however and because of the nature of the story itself makes the film a rather pensive one and so the 3 hour length gives the audience time to think and reflect on what the story is trying to tell you. The film begins with a chance meeting between Claire, a millionaire's daughter and a charming young man in a coffee shop. From the start there is definitely an air of romance within the air. Could this be the man her dad was always telling her to find. Unfortunately as the pair leave the coffee ...  Read the complete review

There's a trend going around - you must have noticed it. People don't have imaginations anymore. Surely you've noticed this? No? OK. Take, for example, the hit parade (charts to you youngsters). Over recent years pop acts have been plundering the quality releases of old in order to garner themselves a hit - Eternal Flame by Atomic Kitten? Done by The Bangles first. They're not the only ones - Hear'say, Westlife etc. are all at it. So what has this got to do with Meet Joe Black then? Well, it's a remake as well ? Death Takes A Holiday was made in 1934 and starred Fredric March as Death and Evelyn Venable as Grazia. ...  Read the complete review

I bought this film after reading one of the other reviews - I was curious. The story is all about Death(Bradd Pitt) who is lonely. He comes down to earth and falls in love with William Parrish's (Anthony Hopkins)daughter (Claire Forlani). Now William is dying and he makes a sort of pact with death. He helps death experience life for a while and in return he gets to live a bit longer. Another thread to the story is that a company member who was a close associate of William and was dating his daughter ends up being exposed as something of a rotter since Joe Black turns up. William's life times work and everything he stood for is in the balance. What a horrible ...  Read the complete review

It has been postulated that Hollywood has developed a strange daze regarding the passing of the Millenium; certainly the budgets and attention given to such inward-gazing pictures such as Deep Impact, City of Angels, and now Meet Joe Black would seem to bear this out. But despite the argument that the Euro’s do it better (Wings of Desire and Until the End of the World come immediately to mind), Tinseltown’s dabbling with contemplation has grown up just fine with Martin Brest’s Meet Joe Black. It’s no secret that Brest fashioned this film as a reexamination of the classic Death Takes a Holiday, but in pairing the well-spoken and ...  Read the complete review

I have just finished watching Meet Joe Black. I love anything with Anthony Hopkins in being a fellow Welshy just like me. I think the film...the story of death (Brad Pitt) in human form travelling along in life with old Tony, falling in love, learning human emotions, was quite good until the end. I have seen a few films lately, one being What Dreams May Come, that have had a good body of a story but, at the end, it's as though the scriptwriter has lost interest. The acting was good in Meet Joe Black and the storyline was quite good but the end was very weak. Shame ...  Read the complete review