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What a surprise!
The storyline seemed to indicate this is a suspense movie. It's actually a lot of things: family relationships and conflict, romance, drama, and some comedy. It's a really unusual subject so it makes you think about all the concepts it's presenting. I love a movie you can analyze and think about for days afterward. This is the kind of movie you can discuss with friends or relatives and compare notes on how each of you interpreted different scenes.

The movie is beautifully done and roles wonderfully played by the actors. Brad Pitt is noteable is his performance portraying death. The interpretation is an unusual one where death is not used to having a body so he's stiff at first. Critics actually blasted Pitt for acting like a zombie or a robot. It was obviously part of the act portraying death. He also acted rather peculiar at the dinner table at first (smelling the food, and not knowing what to do with the plate of rolls). Later he attends a board meeting (uninvited) and makes the mistake of asking for cookies and tea and gets into a discussion about death and taxes while Drew is trying to conduct the meeting. It's all innocent on the part of death, but comes across as being funny. Death is like a child learning the ropes and making plenty of mistakes along the way.

As the movie progressed, I wanted death to fall in love and get Susan away from Drew as the tension between Drew and Joe builds.

The movie score is first rate. It's really emotional and full of feeling that's in the movie. Since getting the DVD, I've watched the movie several times checking parts I didn't quite get the first time.

Seldom is so much packed into a single movie!

I'd rather be MACE'ed
I would rather be MACE'ed twice than watch this movie again. I feel like making Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt and whats her face watch me take a dump for 3 hours so they will know how I felt watching this movie. I did give it 1 star though cuz that one chick is some eye candy even though she spends the whole movie crying about her dad dying or anything else...I did feel really bad for her, must be hard being the extremely rich daughter of a gazillionaire...boo hoo hoo. Lets see...what else sucked about this movie...oh yeah, the half-retarded grim reaper. I would fire Joe Black if he worked for me, his job is to kill people and instead he goes around eating peanut butter and cookies like an idiot. Brad Pitt getting tagged with the car was pretty sweet also, that got weighted into my 1 star rating. Too bad Anthony Hopkins couldn't get mowed over by a bus or something also and we all could have saved a few hours of our life. Too all these people that are sprung on this movie I say get a life and get a hobby.

Dynamite romantic fantasy &music - What an experience!
I thought this might be a sad movie, but when it started out and Hopkins is hearing voices it really got me intrigued. Actually the saddest part was early in the movie. After Susan and "Joe Cool" (Brad Pitt in the coffee shop) meet, share some personal thoughts, have some laughs and then (presumeably without exchanging phone numbers) go their separate ways. They each alternate looking back at each other leaving the scene. Pitt (character name unknown at that point) has such a forlorned look on his face as if he may miss the chance to see Susan again.

I really enjoyed the humor and tone of this movie... also the passionate romance that builds between Susan and Joe Black. The music is really intense too.

Claire Forlani is seems so natural in her role as Susan. Hopkins and Pitt are excellent together with their sometimes supporting and sometimes conficting roles.

The setting of the movie is GREAT! It's interesting seeing how the extemely wealthy live in such opulent surroundings. Most of the movie seems so real that you forget it's a fantasy. So you may have a hard time grasping parts that aren't believeable. I let go of reality for the full 3 hours and just accepted the notion that anythings possible in the movies! This movie is so full of feeling. I absolutely loved it.

The DVD extra segment on behind the scenes details was cool too.

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