The Ghost Writer

THE GHOST WRITER (2010) - Mar. 26, 2010
A well made but somewhat dull thriller about a man who is hired to be the ghost writer for a controversial ex-Prime Minister, only to slowly (very slowly) find himself embroiled in some sinister shenanigans.  The movie is stylishly directed by Roman Polanski and very well acted -- the main problem here is that the movie just takes such a long time to go anywhere, and even when it does it does it in such a leisurely way that it really makes it hard to classify this as a thriller at all.  Certainly, Polanski fails at evoking the Hitchcockian vibe that he is clearly going for.  But the performances were good, and I was never all-out bored, though I was never particularly into it, either.  **1/2