The Ghost Writer [2010] (DVD) Reviews

I quite like thriller films and as a fan of Ewan McGregor, I was looking forward to watching this. Knowing only what the brief synopsis told me online I had a rough idea of what to anticipate and overall it pretty much met my expectations; I say that because I had expected a film that suggests more intelligence and thrills than it ...  Read the complete review

Robert Harris' 2007 novel, 'The Ghost' was a thinly veiled description of the life and times of ex-prime minister Tony Blair. For his part, Harris claimed to have come up with the plot many years before the similair events. The parallels are too many to take this claim seriously however. Then, he joined forces with Roman ...  Read the complete review

If we enjoy celebrating the failed plot to blow up parliament on November 5th then we should set off an extra rocket or two for the latest and rather idiotic foiled terror attack on the American airliners, sophisticated bombs that didn't have detonators, this one looking every inch an intelligence agency stunt. We know with the dodgy ...  Read the complete review

It is difficult to decipher what the worst thing about this film is. It's a strange one, because on paper, it probably worked incredibly well. However, the moment you stick the dirty one from Sex And The City with the bad accent from The Island and the terrible singer from Mamma Mia, it is destined for disaster. Not that the three ...  Read the complete review

- Cast & Credits - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139328/fullcredits - Story - The Ghost is all about a ghost writer who gets the job of writing the memoirs of an ex British prime minister (Adam Lang) now based in the US who is threatened with being charged with war crimes. The writer (whose name ...  Read the complete review

The Ghost (the name that Dooyoo have listed The Ghost Writer was its US launch name) is a pretty good crim ethriller however it lacks the quality needed to make it a five star superb crime thriller. Ewan McGregor plays a character known only as The Ghost who is hired to ghost write the political memoirs of former Prime ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears on my review site, TheFilmBlogger.com Fans of Roman Polanski the man are hard to come by, but he proves once again that Roman Polanski the director is a force not to be trifled with, with this sterling adaptation of Robert Harris' acclaimed political thriller novel The Ghost. Though Polanski has only made ...  Read the complete review

Acceptable. Adequate. Competent. All words which are damning in their faint praise and ones which sadly, all apply to The Ghost (or the Ghost Writer, as it's known in the US). An adaptation of an excellent Robert Harris book, the plot sees a ghost writer hired to help ex-British Prime Minister Adam Lang write his memoirs, ...  Read the complete review

Something of an exile himself, director Roman Polanski can probably empathise with the subject of The Ghost Writer, the film of Robert Harris' claustrophobic thriller with thinly-veiled Blairish undertones. Former British Prime Minister Adam Lang is hiding out at a rich associate's sprawling beachside mansion on Martha's Vineyard, off ...  Read the complete review