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Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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.

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.

Ewan MacGregor is recruited as memoir ghost writer to the ex-Prime Minister of the UK, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who will soon be facing a war crimes trial. Ewan's predecessor was mysteriously lost from a ferry to the island in Maine that Adam Lang is holidaying in, in the stormy season.Luckily, Ewan has all of the previous writer's stuff to go through, and it contains many clues to solving the mystery of um... whatever the mystery is. Why the previous guy was killed, I suppose. He also gets the help of a very old Eli Wallach, who puts beyond it reasonable movie-goer doubt that the guy Ewan has taken over from was murdered. Well we kind of gathered that already, but thanks Eli.Pierce Brosnan always gives good baddie, but while Ewan MacGregor is very good at appearing ordinary, he has never managed to make me believe a character, apart from in Trainspotting. If he's supposed to be an alcoholic in this, he's a kind of weekend alcoholic. And while there's mystery in this movie, IE wondering what secrets are being covered up, there's very little suspense, because you have no idea what or who Ewan is supposed to be scared of. Apart from Adam Lang's wife.Terrible, terrible ending, too. It's like they gave up trying to explain anything because the plot is so inconsequential. The ex-Prime Minister's wife was a CIA plant, OK? (Oh! THAT'S why Lang was so pro-US foreign policy!). This message is 'hidden' in the first words of each chapter of the memoir manuscript. And Ewan figures it out, just in time for publication date, shortly afterwards being hit by a car in a neatly directed but letdown final scene.We never know for sure why the first dead ghostwriter thought 'hiding' his revelation in this way had any point whatsoever. And this isn't even a spoiler because it's a plot turn that has no consequences or relation to the conclusion of the story. All you end up with is, "The CIA are very bad". But you knew that already.Undemanding. Silly. Watchable, just, for Pierce Brosnan's class turn, digging at A. Blair, Esq. Spoiled the book (and any Robert Harris in future) for me.

Good, but not great. Intriguing plot, well shot, very well acted. However, the plot often seems contrived, and there are some gaps. Plus in the end you think "So what? This was the big secret?". For all the stylish, clever build-up, the ending is quite underwhelming.Great performances all round. Olivia Williams is miscast though. Not because of her ability to play her part, but we are supposed to believe she is in her mid-to-late 50s! She certainly didn't look it.Decent enough movie, but not worth all the hype.