When this movie came out, I debated on seeing it. It has one of my favorite actors, Ewan McGregor playing as the main character, the ghost writer. However, I passed on it since it just didn't seem too interesting at the time. On my flight to Seattle they were playing it, and the man sitting next to me said it was pretty good, so I plugged in my headphones and watched.
Ewan McGregor is a ghost writer hired to help the former prime minister write his memoirs, but at the same time the minister is involved in controversy. The prime minister locks himself inside his mansion on a remote island to stay away from reporters and invites Ewan to stay there to write the novel. However, not only is there war controversy there is controversy with the fact that the previous ghost writer had died before finishing the novel.
Although an airplane was not an ideal place to watch the movie, I still don’t feel that if I would’ve been in a theater that I would have felt any more interested. The pace was slow,I didn't care about the characters, their affairs, their pasts or anything. It was a bland movie altogether. Not much action. Just a bunch of news, protesters, and an ending action sequence. The first five minutes where Ewan wasn't allowed to take the memoirs out of the room and they were locked up in the mansion and the last five minutes where the conclusion and end credits occured were the only intriguing moments in the movie to me.
Rating: 2.5 stars
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