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)
「全球水源供全球」，好莱坞明星真好赚。然而这套配方这套题大陆也看到了，就是开卷都做不出来...
这片其实就光看这三个好莱坞顶级大佬之间的化学反应就够了，还需要其他什么自行车呢？继续期待续集就好！
《速激》系列中道恩·强森和杰森·斯坦森的组合也是玩的这一套（打嘴炮），《速激：特别行动》中道恩·强森和杰森·斯坦森，以及道恩·强森和瑞安·雷诺兹玩的还是这一套，这部又来，实在是看腻了。
几个主演之间有点不来电，盖尔加朵就再加一星
有枪战，有追车，有搞笑，有反转，有夺宝奇兵的感觉，还有最美的女贼，是一部合格的商业娱乐片，我觉得挺好看的，估计用了好多CG。
本片两大看点：加朵的腿和黄老板的沙雕(笑cry)。。。
盗宝、探险、不断反转的老套故事，逻辑漏洞太多。看点在于大块头、嘴炮、神奇女侠。
动作戏的时候镜头剪辑太快，看的头晕；国际刑警直接砸了作为证据的假金蛋；金蛋在车中无人监管；诸如此类的逻辑瑕疵还有几处；好莱坞的世界里面没有好爸爸。
故事可以说毫无亮点，一切都是规定动作就罢了，每一次期待的情感推进还都做成了蜻蜓点水，没有一处真正击中泪点。几位演员，徐帆没让人看到任何将死之人的内心波澜，张婧仪全程嘟噜个脸，许亚军从头到尾没表情，佩奇那条线更是莫名其妙。就算是摆明赚泪点的题材，也不能这样敷衍吧
就是十分工业化的流水线爆米花电影…为了反转而反转，三个人没有啥cp感，各演各的。加朵真美，我爱美女，美女贴贴！结尾感觉是要再拍个流水线2吗？
男一男二费尽心思抢夺45秒的交班间隙，然而……女警轻轻松松就跟进去了。
RR每个角色都像本色出演哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
温馨提醒：观影请自备纸巾。
只有我觉得巨石强森和盖尔加朵真的没有cp感吗
剧情逻辑上肯定有一些漏洞，但不影响观感【欢乐就好】。
剧透⚠️⚠️⚠️好有爱的故事呀，恋人发现她的对象心里有了另一个男人，然后三个人幸福地生活在了一起。我的确喜欢看他们相爱相杀，加朵太美了，我高度近视都能看见她眼角的细纹，但丝毫不减她的魅力！不过毕竟是娱乐片，网飞也无意拍另一部纵横四海，开心一下就好。
影咖看的。类型片套路，2星半吧。简直是套模板做出来的电影。巨石强森，烂片之王。
没有原创，电影没有未来。
Netflix繼續花費大資金拍出了一部不太好的商業老梗大片（可能想著有3大演員作為主角，必定受眾超廣的！那想想也是的。），這是一部不用觀眾去思考而劇情極度線性的故事，但他們掌握情報網絡就非常不合理了，劇情細節沒有合理性交代。“況且影片開局就給觀眾明明白白的題綱了，就沒必要寫細節。”總體就是兄弟打嘴炮+很簡易的盜竊情節。大部分觀眾估計都是衝著 盖尔·加朵（Gal Gadot）去的。劇中 瑞安·雷诺兹 近來飾演的角色在對白上有點刻意去講些太多冷笑話了。道恩·强森 吧，就是演他平常那種硬漢之類的自己吧。
影片中好多场景，都能和自己的生活对照起来。女主小时候总缠着妈妈睡，说喜欢妈妈身上的味道，长大后却不愿意和妈妈亲近。像极了我小时候总吵着让妈妈穿裙子打扮漂亮，到现在每次她穿新衣服问我意见，我眼皮都不抬下就说好看。徐帆那句“我这是为了你好，我是你妈”更是让我瞬间以为是昨天我和我妈打电话的录音。徐帆这次演的妈也很绝，非常真实日常的状态，但又很有情绪感染力。
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