Release Date: 02/19/2010

Length: 128′

Personal Rating (1-10): 8

“The Ghost Writer” is the story of a mediocre writer played by Ewan McGregor that has to finish the memoirs of ex British Prime Minister, Adam Lang, played by Pierce Brosnan.

Once The Ghost starts getting close to Lang’s entourage he starts finding cracks in the foundation of the politician’s family and also weird details in the presumed accidental death of ex ghost writer.

The entire movie is The Ghost’s research for the truth made in not as much as a detective movie, but a thriller without the thrills. The speed of action is rather slow, not slow enough to take you to sleep, but not fast enough to make your heart race. I think it’s just about right to make you think!

The events are rather smart and the movie is not easily predictable. Once you see the next step you say to yourself “yeah, that makes sense!” but you don’t actually anticipate it. And the ending brings a nice twist.

Pluses: Ewan McGregor’s performance, Storyline

Minus: The performance of Pierce Brosnan is OK, but at a certain moment he makes a small public speech in front of some protesters and he tryes to make this sort of accent, in which he sounds almost Russian. It sounded like some newby actor was trying to make an impression of a personality.

“The Ghost Writer” is a good watch and is worth the two hours. I enjoyed it pretty much. Watch the trailer bellow: