Meet Joe Black (DVD) Reviews

Anthony Hopkins plays an aging, successful man who one day meets with a personified Death, played by Brad Pitt. Death was meant to take the man with him but a problem arises when he falls for the man's daughter. He exchanges death for a tour of life and the film follows this. The film is sightly too long at three hours but it is good ...

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 ...

contrary to popular belief that this film is one of the worst ever, i have to totally disagree! this is one of my favourite films. ok so at 3 hours, and without any big battle scenes or special effects, it is a tad too long. but the storyline, the acting, the way it is shot, makes it a really unique and absorbing film. it is like a philosophical ...

Me and my fiancé were completely stuck with what to watch the other night so I suggested not wasting money on renting a film when I have hundreds of them that he hasn’t seen and that I don’t mind watching again. We decided upon Meet Joe Black as I had a craving to watch it and I thought Dave might find it interesting. Well when I had started ...

So you`re an aging, self-made millionaire, wanting for nothing , but with a unbeknown to you heart condition. One day a Death comes to visit you and makes a deal which runs like this. As the Reaper only gets to meet souls as they pass from this world to the next, he has decieded to come topside and experience the human experience and he thinks you ...

What a truely outstanding movie. I've watched it several times now and on each occasion it takes my breath away... The overall emotions of the film are incredibly spiritual and almost spooky, and yet the love story that unwinds is heart provoking to say the least. I dare anyone to watch it and not wipe away a tear or two in many ...

Well, what to say? What the fuck? I was bored out my little tree watching this piece of pseudo emotional american toss! Great idea for a 30 minute TV program, if you were bloody desperate you could stretch it to an hour, but this complete waste of time was only made worse by fucking insulting me with the 'extra' bits given on the DVD in a ...

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 ...

This is a very unusual film that plays on a whole set of emotions including joy, sadness, anger, love and grief. Bill Parrish (played by Anthony Hopkins) is a very successful businessman as the head of a media broadcasting company. He starts to hear voices and when the owner of the voices introduces himself he is totally shocked. The ...

I first heard about Meet Joe Black when the trailers started to appear in cinemas and I was intrigued straight away, it sounded like it could be a good film. Then shortly afterwards the reviews started to appear and all of them seemed to about the same; How could a good idea be made into such an overlong, boring film as this? ...

And you thought YOU had problems. In director Martin Brest's "Meet Joe Black" (loosely based on the play "Death Takes a Holiday"), the Parrish family is just trying to have an intimate dinner – as intimate as dinner can be in an immense Warwick, RI, mansion – when Death, in the guise of Joe Black (Brad Pitt), ...

When I went to the cinema to see this film, I had no idea what it was about, and I am glad about that as in a similar vein to “Sixth Sense”, finding out the plot would spoil your enjoyment of the film. I will try not to give major plotlines away, while still making the opinion useful enough for you to decided whether or not you want to ...

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 ...

What if "Death" was a person, what would he look like? I’m sure many people’s minds conjure up images such as the "Death" character in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the grim reaper, with his long black flowing robes and a scythe, and if you’ve ever read any Terry Pratchet’s Disc world ...

This was a film that took me a while to get round to viewing. Adverts for it made it look boring so it was never a film I wanted to see. Recently, having so many channels and films to choose from on Sky, I read the review about this film. It made me sit up and take an interest so I decided to give it a go and am very glad that I ...

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. I'm usually pretty good at guessing the ending to films very early on but this one had me guessing all the way. Outstanding performances from Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. It's a good all rounder that'll have you laughing and crying. I don't want to spoil the ending for you but there's no ...

I have just finished watching this film and I felt the need to come and write about it straight away as I have so many mixed feelings about it. I feel quite tired as it lasted for nearly three hours which I find quite a long time to sit down and watch a film. Even though it lasted this long I found it to be quite gripping apart from the ...

Meet Joe Black is a long and great film, it is one of many recent angels returning to earth type of movie, and is easily the best of the collection. The leading players, Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins turn in superb performances, the storyline is thought provoking and well crafted, this film will make you laugh and you suspect, when watching, ...

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 ...

I saw Joe Black for the first time last night, and thought it was very good. I cried buckets at the end - always a good sign! Brad Pitt plays death for most of the film, come to take a rich tycoon played very well by Anthony Hopkins. However, death asks Anthony Hopkins to show him around, and in the mean time AH gets to live a bit longer. ...