Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
谭耀文，宽了……
剧情很糟糕，纯粹的吓人电影，几种元素拼凑一下。
很多镜头像《昆池岩》，鬼脸挺多看个刺激吧，故事有点乱。
比昆岩池还是要好一些，但把韩国神婆，日本地缚灵，藏传佛教的金刚杵糅合到一起，也只是一个脆弱的缝合怪而已。
最后一部越发没啥逻辑了！toma一哭秒变单眼皮
三池崇史带着他最新的烂片来了
开头的特效实在是辣眼睛🙈，还不如国产的，菜菜绪唯一看点两颗星⭐
但是
从13年看到了22年，另一种意义上的好玩。不推荐跟家长一起看。
如果被害的女孩没有一个有钱老爸，如果这律师没有耍手段，纯粹的按照法律程序来走，这个小伙子铁定是要被冤枉入狱了。所以啊，法律漏洞太大，只能约束愿意遵守的人，然而愿意遵守的一般又不违法。所以，呵呵呵
前面两部没看过，直接看的这部。太好笑了实在是。堤真一也太帅了吧。
21.10 法师套路了自己这个套路也不新鲜了
还真是有点悬疑。就在跟随主角一起来破案。不，不是破案，是把正义公之于众。尽到律师的职责。加班后把它看完了。我也很尽职，今天加班去管村小学把操场和花池边粉刷完了。致敬为社会作出贡献的人们。加油！奋斗！
如果最后不出现雷大律师造假证据我就打6分了，整个故事有点俗套有点幼稚。制造的冲突也挺老套的，新人律师抱着所谓的信仰可是却在遇到问题时马上缴械投降，以此来对比突出出方中信饰演的雷有辉表面已经老油条实则才是内心信仰拉满。工具人不过如此了。
还是比较有新意，并不纯是恐怖，悬疑反转做的不错
10-8 普普通通，类似TVB版葛法庭&刑事案件
这么黑漆麻哄的地方，你放只蝙蝠进去，逃出来的几率都大过半吊子法师和惊声尖叫的男女大生
终于这一系列完结了，就完结篇来说不算合格，故事非常一般，为了完结而完结的一部电影。
不如昆池岩
故事应该是不错的，太黑了，转来转去就弄的没耐性看了
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