Meet Joe Black is a great movie that is brought down by an excruciating three hour run-time, over dramatic score, and tonal whiplash. This movie has no idea what it wants to be. The main plot is inherently fantasy, but it starts off leaning towards horror, but then becomes a fish out of water comedy story, and then romance, then a drama. Every fifteen minutes, it feels like a tonal reset. My biggest issue is that it tries to poke too many genres and ends up not really achieving any of them. The idea of Death taking a vacation to experience Earth is cool, but they are so inconsistent with how much Death knows about life. Death (Joe Black) doesn't understand phrases like "It threw me", but is somehow incredibly well spoken with a sophisticated repertoire or fancy words. He's never heard the "death and taxes" cliche, but he speaks fluent creole (I think that's what it is). The acting is solid, although since Joe Black speaks exclusively in a monotone it's hard to get a lot of emotion from the character. The score is entirely big, loud orchestral songs that try to make every third scene an epic moment. Two characters embrace and violins blare out of the speakers and overpower the moment and overwhelm the audience. It's all too much. The songs themselves are fine, but they need to be toned down. Overall, I did enjoy meeting Joe Black, but we were together far too long and I'm not sure exactly how we feel about each other, especially when the ending of the film has so many logistical problems. There is no way it works practically and if the movie showed the next fifteen minutes of what happens next, the entire ending falls apart. It's not at all similar, but imagine if Toy Story 2 ended with Bo Peep getting pregnant. Wouldn't Andy notice that his plastic toy now has an extended belly? What happens when she has cowboy babies in fluffy pink dresses? How is Andy going to rationalize that? The ending of Meet Joe Black in no way involves knocked-up toys, but it has the same level of logical issues. Meet Joe Black needed pruning to be amazing, but even though parts were a slog to get through, I did really enjoy it.