Review of Meet Joe Black (1998) by Aaron S — 08 Dec 2010

Best first 20 minutes EVER. Everything else was blegh.

This review of Meet Joe Black (1998) was written by Aaron S on 08 Dec 2010.

Meet Joe Black has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

Meet Joe Black (1998) Movie Reviews (709)
Meet Joe Black (1998) Critic Reviews (34)
Meet Joe Black (1998) User Reviews (675)

More Reviews of Meet Joe Black

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Judge_Redd (15) on 30 May 2016

With proper editing, this could have been widdled into a respectable film…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Shelley D (26) on 06 Oct 2017

I love this movie. Have watched it over and over again…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Sana J (3) on 27 Sep 2016

A brilliant idea beautifully embodied with some fine acting and amazing dialogues. Deep and philosophical on multiple levels…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Farah R (1,015) on 22 Oct 2018

Hard to believe this comes from the same director as Beverly Hills Cop but when it came out, I was fully enthralled with Meet Joe Black as…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Geralt S (10) on 18 Aug 2018

Meet Joe Black is ultimately a disappointment and an an exercise in how one should understand the pacing of the movie…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Yannick D (372) on 18 Jun 2016

A number of things are bizarre about this one…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Matteodreddy (5) on 13 Dec 2020

Brilliant story,beautiful ending,interesting script and good performances from the actors…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Abelbezerra (1) on 05 Jun 2021

I have a habit, which makes me waste a lot of time, I don't leave a movie unfinished, it can be the biggest crap, I must stay until the end…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Scarlet A (6) on 23 Feb 2017

I keep wanting to watch it again and again. That's a sign of a good one to me…

Read Review

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Cynthia R (73) on 05 Jan 2019

If I was to make a list of the best movies of all time this would have to be at the very top of that list,so emotional and an amazing experience…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Flatliners (1990)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 24 Nov 1991

Far-fetched as the premise is, I was willing to give the film the benefit of the doubt for the sake of the impressive cast…

Read Review

Review of Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

By Charles E (169) on 18 Oct 2016

The least epic epic movie ever made. Music this great deserves a better film. A disappointment of considerable proportions…

Read Review

Review of 21 Grams (2003)

By Ash M (177) on 16 Oct 2016

Melodramatic; disappointing considering how great Amores Perros was (Iñárritu directing also)…

Read Review

Review of Chicago (2002)

By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 14 Mar 2003

Rob Marshall's style is to make everything relentlessly brassy and fake, and his Chicago simply looks like a filmed stage play…

Read Review

Review of The Illusionist (2006)

By Prabhath (1) on 15 Nov 2014

Could have build up the character of Crown Prince establishing him as a cruel person.....there isn't even one scene at least to establish that....He…

Read Review

Review of Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 14 May 2007

May be Jordan's wildest mis-shot yet, so dense with dying fizzle and limp ideas that I began to wonder if Jordan has an evil twin, or if there…

Read Review

Review of Vollidiot (2007)

By Steffi E (13) on 20 Feb 2008

A rather bad movie. Pocher can't act. Not half as funny as the book…

Read Review

Review of Amadeus (1984)

By Nazgulero (109) on 05 Dec 2012

Simply awful. The acting is so bad, and Tom Hulce's performance in particular, this movie is unbearable to watch…

Read Review

Review of Casablanca (1943)

By Kalrion (1) on 22 Jun 2020

What a miserable and overrated movie. I'm not even counting the fact that the film itself is quite biased. Don't spend your precious time watching it…

Read Review

Review of The Seventh Seal (1957)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Apr 1968

The film in fact consists of a series of dull speeches spun on simple themes; Bergman barely tries to make the material function dramatically…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Blade Runner 2049

2017

80%2,332 Reviews

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

81%344 Reviews

Midsommar

2019

69%207 Reviews

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

Logan

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Meet Joe Black

1998

65%709 Reviews

The Message

1976

81%144 Reviews

Raptor Island

2004

43%15 Reviews

Baywatch

2017

50%1,206 Reviews

Beautiful Boy

2018

71%339 Reviews

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007

77%1,014 Reviews

Leatherheads

2008

53%618 Reviews

Pusher

1996

74%208 Reviews

The Man Who Knew Infinity

2016

68%305 Reviews

2001

62%118 Reviews