Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Though the movie has suspense till the end,the ending is quite lame. I felt very bad about wasting my time on such a pathetic ending movie.

Polanski is the master. Everything he crafts is golden. This is no exception. It feels so low key, yet it hooks you in and doesn't let go. All the performances are faultless and the tension and intrigue are unrelenting. Definitely recommended.

I hesitated for long time to give it a chance. I discovered The Ghost Writer again on Netflix. I have to admit that it was better than I expected. It begins slow but steady interesting. Then it gets more and more into an intriguing story. Finally it ends with great surprises that I couldn't even imagine at the beginning of the movie. Ewan McGregory played his role perfectly. I liked the mysterious filming locations and the perfectly adapted music a la Hitchcock. Director Roman Polanski created a solid mystery thriller. Bravo. It deserves by far a good entertaining rate of 7/10.

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.