![]() ![]() It wouldn't be as bad if the conversations were well-written, but most of what the characters say is sophomoric and rarely of much interest. The first, and most obvious, is that the director forces his actors to insert frequent, lengthy pauses into all dialogue (I kept wondering if he believed he was directing William Shatner). Several obvious techniques are applied to accomplish this. ![]() Somehow, Brest manages to take a script lacking the content to justify a two hour motion picture and drag it out to three. There are slow movies, slooooooooooow movies, and then there's Meet Joe Black. Brest transforms a seemingly foolproof idea into an overblown bore. Director Martin Brest, who helmed the enjoyable-but-also-too-long Scent of a Woman, is at his absolute worst here. At a hair under three hours, it's shorter than James Cameron's Titanic, yet, when it comes to pace, Joe Black is glacial. It is also one of the most tedious and bombastic. Meet Joe Black has the dubious distinction of being the longest film to date of 1998. ![]()
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