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)
说句老实话，去掉文戏，让我看两个小时恐龙都可以
美丽的泡泡终究会破碎，一觉醒来，一切只是一个梦想，但是永远无法照进现实。
就这？我分了三天看掉的，每次看都是困意袭来，实在看不下去，惊险刺激，元素繁多的侏罗纪公园没了，成了这？生化危机的模式，还是半吊子的，贼无趣就是了。
2.5。1.故事线拧巴，一方为了证实蝗虫危机是生物公司所为，一方为了防止基因改造的女孩落入别有用心之手，开篇讲世界里存在的人与恐龙共存的危机，直到最后依然没有得到解决。2.恐龙的出现只是为了给主角制造阻碍，并没有融到主题中去，期待的恐龙大战虽没有草草收场，但无甚精彩可言。3.巧合、机械降神实在太多。4.即使拉来斯皮尔伯格《侏罗纪公园》三部曲的主演，这强行凑齐，反而给剧作添乱。
老太婆的裹脚又臭又长，三巨头的重聚也尬得抠脚。
把《侏罗纪公园》里的主演拿来和《侏罗纪世界》主演同框，算是一种致敬？里面的反派怎么看怎么像苹果公司的库克，感觉是在故意黑他。
一个世界的崩塌，另一个世界拉开了帷幕，当恐龙们逐渐适应并融入现代大自然后，似乎注定将成为可有可无的背景板。
PS：快四个月没好好见豆瓣！太怀念了，今天起暑假观影计划上线，一天至少一部狠狠刷，重回电影里做梦。
忘了之前看過哪幾集了。原來有第一部侏羅紀公園的主角阿。
靠封控期消化侏羅紀系列的新鮮記憶，在IMAX廳兜起五花八门的劇情梗。中、老年組紛紛合體撒糖。成年人忙著拯救自然，孩子急於了解自我。反派來來回回，吳博士及庫克或成最大贏家。侏羅紀拍出碟中諜效果，熟悉的恐懼與歡樂，正是此刻的我太需要的維他命。(和平IMAX賽高！
很少见到这么有自毁情结而又如此不堪一击的反派，靠对老版的致敬和贩卖情怀再割最后一波韭菜。
完全忘了前两部，已经分不清和哥斯拉系列有啥区别……
7/10没有预想的那么糟糕，尽管也没有那么好，但是正好填补了空缺，毕竟我们真的需要这种大片。前边确实很拖沓，各种剪辑来回跳很难入戏，黑市追逐那场戏是最喜欢的一段，整体故事有点老套，剧情简单高潮不足，没什么新鲜的东西出现，但并不妨碍帕帕那无处安放的魅力。
哇，还有什么比在大银幕上看恐龙打架更爽的事情了嘛！老人组情怀满格。马耳他追车戏帅爆了，隐约有谍影重重的感觉。人老色衰的爵爷明显失宠了，黑人小哥全程抢戏。想拥有同款花衬衫。还想收藏一整套恐龙玩偶。
跟速度与激情系列、金刚系列、复仇者联盟系列一样，越到后面的套路就是天南海北取景，实际的剧情乏善可陈。老专家组的剧情线完全没意思，硬是引入蝗虫的线，只是为了打情感牌以及和萝莉串起来。克莱尔和欧文青年组的剧情线还是不错的。有几个片段设计得太刺激了，欧文在雪原上骑马牧恐龙、克莱尔欧文一伙躲避暴虐龙追捕、克莱尔在剪刀手恐龙的威压下慢慢没入水中。
套路一如前几作，这一部尤甚，前半部分的打击恐龙走私和治理蝗虫戏份实在无趣，后半部分打斗又不够精彩，毫无和前几作媲美的酣畅淋漓的恐龙大战，主角团们一路逃生的戏码也毫无被恐龙追击的紧张压迫感。为数不多又极其敷衍的几个霸王龙镜头，实在无法勾起观众的情怀感
流水的暴虐龙巨兽龙，铁打的霸王龙！！本侏罗纪老粉打7.5分，非粉就是6.5，剧情确实不出彩，但这部更多是填坑。建议把公园三部曲和世界前两部都看了，再看这部你就会发现很多致敬的桥段。侏罗纪系列我从小看到大就是一个情怀，所以最终曲我觉得意义大于“好看”，诚然剧本确实有问题，非恐龙戏份过多，走向逻辑也经不起推敲。但，这个结局却可能是最好的结局了。看到博士说：都别动，看到霸王龙经过园门水圈形成logo看到布鲁和男主互望告别，有点泪目。
全员的演技都巨烂。。。特效和打斗追赶镜头满分 /igc w/m
人类的戏太多，恐龙戏份少了些，主角光环太强大，反派太弱鸡。
追逐戏和大家在一起逃难真的太好看了哈哈哈，开头我有点昏昏欲睡，但到后面跑起来真的太刺激了！！！
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