The Ghost Film

Din Roman Polanski
2hrs 8mins (15)
Adaptation of the novel
by Robert Harris
Unless he can resolve his legal problems on the other side of the Atlantic, The Ghost could turn out to be Roman Polanksi's final film. Based on the novel by Robert Harris, it stars Ewan McGregor as a ghostwriter hired to pen the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan}. It's an old-fashioned political thriller with "exactly the pacing you'd expect from a 76-year-old film- maker busy trying to stave off deportation", said Mike McCahill in The Sunday Telegraph. Compared to the Bourne franchise. The Ghost resembles the sort of "creaky" British thriller we

might have seen 25 years ago, with Michael Cainc in the McGregor role. The Ghost may be "a tad low on excitement", said Henry Fitzherbert in the Sunday Express, but some clever characterisation more than compensates, with Harris's "pointed humour" drawing out the similarities between Lang and Tony Blair. It's a "grown-up thriller" from a master director, said Chris Tookey in the Daily Mail. "Intelligent audiences will find it engaging, politically astute and thought-provoking."