Review of Meet Joe Black (1998) by Alden W — 20 Sep 2011

I finally just saw this... I never understood why it was always on TBS for 4 some hours but now I completely understand. It's a damn good movie. And it's 3 hours. No no no no... it doesn't feel like three hours.

Seriously it doesn't! I was really captivated by the story and there were times where I thought *SPOILER ALERT* there would be some CGI elements for Death but no there weren't which actually made it better than it actually having it.

So the story is about *SPOILER ALERT* a guy who has 2 daughters, runs a really big company, and .. death follows him around. Basically death has observed him for a while and Anthony Hopkins has led this great life and he wants to see what the world is like and feel what it's like to be human.

In exchange for being "Death's Guide" around everywhere, Hopkins gets more time to live. Which is really sad cause when Death is not fascinated then the journey is over. It all sounds good but I'm just warning all the guys out there that this is the combination of a heartfelt, supernatural, romantic, twisted chick flick.

This movie kinda makes itself into a new kind of chick flick category that's manly enough for men. I'll admit that I felt like tearing up after seeing this and if by the end you don't you're a NAZI!! Anyways this is really an amazing film and it's definitely going in my top 10-15 favorite films.

GO watch it!