Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Michael Ledo I was sitting on the edge of my seat during the whole movie as the plot got thicker and thicker. Adam Lange (Brosnan) is a former British Prime Minister who hires Ewan McGregor to finish ghost writing his memoirs. As the movie opens we see the first ghost writer's body wash up on the beach. Ewan is selected because he is politically stupid. After his initial meeting with a hiring group,(Jim Belushi) he is handed a manuscript to look at. On his way home, he is mugged and the manuscript stolen. He suspects it is because the robbers thought it was Adam Lange's memoirs.On his way to meet Lange, he sees on TV that Lange is being charged with war crimes for turning over suspected terrorists to the CIA for torture (Apparently only the US and Israel are allowed to do that under the UN charter). He finally meets Lange and his aides and wife (Ruth), only find out Ruth (Olivia Williams) dislikes Lange's aide (Kim Cattrall) and suspects they are having an affair. McGregor shifts gears from Ghostwriter to investigative journalist as he unravels a web of deceit and lies.The movie is long, but it held my interest all the way through.

dirtphelia There will be big spoilers in this review, but given how awful this movie is, you'll probably be thankful you didn't waste your time watching it to find out for yourself. I was looking for movies about writers and figured what the hey. Well, let me tell you: this movie sucks!!! Firstly, the writer gets hired to finish a book another writer was writing when he died. This implies the book was not finished, however, the manuscript is complete so very early in the movie it's clear that the movie makes no sense. If a manuscript is finished you need an editor, not a writer.When all signs point to the first writer being murdered, what does new writer do? Follow in the footsteps of dead writer, narrowly escaping his own death by not hiding at all from the hit men, then call a random number he found among the effects of dead writer. It just so happens that the person whose phone that is wants to save him.Writer talks about his suspicions with all the people who obviously had something to do with the initial writer's supposed murder, except they don't murder him.And the biggest spoiler and let down: he finds out the big secret in the end and guess what, he just happens to walk into the street and get hit by a car, so nobody ever finds out what he knew. Like, seriously.To top it off, the sound is terrible. Talking is at a level 2 while all sound effects are at a level 15.What crap.

jnfaulk I have never written a review before but after spending 30 mins flabbergasted reading reviews for this thing and only finding 1 review that had the same question as me i had to... how in the hell are people reviewing this movie so overwhelmingly positive? Not just like "good movie" - which it was definitely not - but things like "one for the ages" "perfect movie" "hooked from start to finish"...... HUH? Is this like a practice joke? Like some Internet troll where hundreds of people decided to spoof review just to F with strangers? I understand with some movies how people can like them and I have a different opinion. I can see reasons for them liking said movie and I can understand why we disagree. But I am absolutely stunned by the reviews here... some of the shots are pretty I suppose. in a dreary, dark, colorless, monotonous way.. but beyond that I saw nothing thrilling, suspenseful, entertaining. I saw no reason to care about any of the characters or what happens to them. And the ending? Is that supposed to be some shocking twist? It's crazy cuz I read critic reviews on rotten too and it was the same thing. Roger ebert or whatever 4 out of 4. Huh? I don't know.. I pride myself in life in being able to figure things out that confuse me.. having an understanding on why a thing is a certain way even if I don't see it that way.. this is something that I'm not going to be able to solve. How this movie earned such incredible reviews is the single greatest mystery of my life.

PimpinAinttEasy Dear Roman Polanski, Ghost Writer is mostly a film of place for me. The locales and the visuals stood out for me more than anything else in this film. It superseded the film's politics and the wonderful actors. I cannot think of another film set on an island that has been shot so beautifully. Hitchcock's Birds comes to mind. But the rainy, sparsely populated places with beaches and beautiful pubs and houses in The Ghost Writer captured my imagination unlike any other film.Ewen Mcgregor must be one of the best actors of his generation - he is perfect as a man who serves the powers that be. Pierce Brosnan excels in a rare role of a square. Olivia Williams as Brosnan's vicious and controlling wife delivers a strong performance. Kim Cattrall as her sexual rival was easy on the eyes.The background score by Alexander complements the visuals perfectly. The rollicking title score sounds like a ferry crashing through the waves. I loved it. And loved your movie too.Best Regards, Pimpin.