Review of Meet Joe Black (1998) by Chris R — 27 Nov 2010

In movies there is always a story that at it's core wants to teach us or move us. Well the message of this movie is lost somewhere in the stagnant pacing. The message that I got is that when I am old and ready to die, death will come as a good looking guy and want to start a relationship with my daughter.(That is wrong on so many levels).

I mean it truly isn't a terrible movie, and an overall theme about life and death and our last minutes is a touching idea but never seemed to reach that point of being touching to me. Particularly the ending with death giving back the body he barrowed to be on earth in the first place is like they want us to believe this. Anyway I digres, it feels like most romance movies big budget and good acting but a really slow moving plot.