Friday 5 November 2010

Ghost
[The Ghost Writer]
(2010)

RATING:40%
FORMAT:DVD

Lackluster thriller with an impressive cast that fails to ignite because the characters are so poorly drawn. It tries hard to be the typically-Hitchcockian suspenser of an ordinary man in a shady business in over his head. The war crimes of Tony BLAIR’s government in making the UK the 51st state of the Union makes for topical excitement, but lacks original political insight.

In truth, this is really about the director’s sense of isolation from a world where he is unable to visit countries like the United States to make a film there because he would almost certainly be arrested on arrival. Nevertheless, although the film is set in the US and performers seem desperate to come to Europe to appear in a Roman Polanski movie - no matter how brief their roles. Polanski is like the ex-UK prime minister shown here, bitter and resentful at a world that both loves and hates him; admires and loathes him. Not as good nor as subtle as The Special Relationship.

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