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)
印象不深了。剧情不行，再好的演员也很难通过演技来挽回
可惜无人机的酷炫被拉垮的剧本和糟糕的剪辑和动作戏拖后腿，严重不如上一部鬼影特工，不过总的来说我和我老婆都觉得还行
【7.0】比我预想中要好看很多，节奏和氛围的营造都属上乘，摄影上花活儿很多，就是结尾的处理有些差强人意。
拍都拍了，就不能好好写写剧本吗？这么帅的场面，这么好的演员，但是剧本就是一坨屎。
不愧是迈克尔•贝的自嗨作品，传统元素齐全，总给我一种抢来的钱都抵不上车辆公物损毁的错觉。节奏快而碎，镜头不停运动，故事和人物都有点不太聪明的荒诞感和自嘲感。某个瞬间gaydar提醒我疑似出现同志角色，回来一查，果然！
影院开放后的第一场电影，反正冲着爆米花去的，就不细究逻辑了。
玩着手机，最后赶场结局都不看的一部🤷🏼♀️
看得我好累/怎么这么长，再缩减点时间就好了/并没有觉得肾上腺素飙升
公路警匪片，整体还是及格吧，完整流畅，镜头运用太过了，为了大场面而大场面，炫技过度看下来就是疲惫
这可能是我看过最煎熬的电影了，从4月27日到5月2日，看了6天才看完！这一次卖拷贝的爆炸和大场面依然不缺席，却没什么炸出什么新鲜感。故事感觉上“一波三折”，却没什么实质意义，肤色不同的两个“亲”兄弟相爱相杀也没有产生什么火花，丹尼作为知名的抢二代完全没有高智商，威尔作为战斗英雄也没体现什么高战力，确实是亲兄弟，堪称卧龙凤雏，就知道莽。影片节奏还算紧凑，小护士的颜值也在线，只是在抢劫银行上了救护车之后，摇晃的镜头和快速的剪辑虽然没有对我产生影响，但就是莫名的让我觉得无聊，一看就困，每天如此，接连看了6天，天天睡得睁不开眼。我要记住本片，有朝一日我要失眠了，一定要翻出来看看。
普通商业动作片。迈克尔·贝这次爆炸场面不多，追逐戏不少，使用了大量无人机拍摄镜头，很炫，也很眩晕。其实创意还是不错的，劫匪走投无路抢了救护车，车上有受伤的警察，所以哪怕全城警车都在这辆救护车后跟着，也不敢对这车怎么样。问题是也不能一直开下去，过程中得想办法让这场戏有趣起来，比如开车的过程中做个外科手术。残暴的人直接挂掉，善良的人不仅获救还能得钱，人美心善的人值得用漂亮的樱花衬托。总觉得这样的卡司应该更好才对，不过就这种水平也行吧，最近对院线片要求不高。
不带脑子看可以给4星，老派动作片的回勇，要较真的话得被黑哥气死。算了，为了身心健康着想，四星了
超快的剪辑，酷炫的镜头，火爆的场面，寡淡的情节，如此已矣。
很爽，很晃，很晕，很咣咣咣。大摇臂和直升机航拍明显已经满足不了爆炸贝了，这次直接上无人机了是吧。
穿梭机运镜很炫，但不少镜头用得没有来由，狂轰滥炸，整体视听躁得慌，不少牵强附会，最后硬扳回来也没能打动人，死那么多无辜的警察和平民就让闪回一段童年给安抚了？明目张胆的把钱塞进包里当周围的人眼瞎吗？导演跟嗨了药一样拍的，狂拍一堆素材剪得眼花缭乱就是高级了？ 2022·4·23 6.0/3446 短评2056 大陆票房4天8百多万。【IMDb6.4/1.5万】
就这还专业抢银行的？这好像随便从菜市场找几个人就过来抢银行来了，威尔这个人物设定太坑了，逻辑上根本说不通……
在政治正确领导下的爆炸贝名不虚传，穿梭机拍摄动作场面好刺激
嘟嘟嘟。哒哒哒。duangduangduang。点错了。结尾宣传片套路么
很卖拷贝，除了追车戏的剪辑还有整体调度别的一切都巨假。什么特勤组老大嗝屁，窝里斗黑老大嗝屁，这都在干什么，就是开救护车遛遛LA
刚开始还行，后面… 卖拷贝你自己觉得这合理吗？剪掉那些乱七八糟的到90分钟之内，就是一部合格的商业片。
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