Friday, August 20, 2010

The Ghost Writer

Roman Polanski

Hitchcockian thriller based on the master's well-developed idea of an ordinary man caught up in nefarious doins that are far beyond his level of expertise.

Well done in all respects...it raced along ticking all the usual boxes in a follow-the-numbers sort of way. My only problem was that we were kept mostly in the dark for two hours...like the protagonist...which seemed artificial and strained...only to be clued in at the very end. Then immediately we watch the prot get killed. It all worked OK but just barely.

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