Meet Joe Black - DVD Review

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The Grim Reaper snatches Brad Pitt�s body and then pops round to the opulent home of Anthony Hopkins� tycoon to tell him that it�s time to cash his last cheque. But first, he offers the old man a deal: extra time on Earth for giving Death-as-Pitt a tour of mortal life.

Behind-the-scenes featurette, production notes, theatrical trailer, cast&crew biogs.Martin Brest�s overlong, pompous vanity piece is notable mainly for Pitt�s hilariously bad performance, but the extras are unexceptional. That said, Hopkins explaining how his choice of scripts has improved (Instinct, anyone?), and Pitt�s dumb description of the film as a symphony (it sure ain�t a three-minute pop song) offer titter-worthy nuggets of nonsense, while the trailer is a great lesson in the power of editing. Mr Brest, please take note.

Stephen Applebaum

Issue 33 - October 1999

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