Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Ghost Town

No one is more of a Ricky Gervais fan than me; however there is no way I can recommend this movie. How many movies have we seen where someone can all of a sudden see ghosts, the ghosts acknowledge they can be seen by this person, and now they want their help to take care of some unfinished business before they go to heaven. This film isn't clever or even put together in an intelligent way. For instance there is a scene when Ricky Gervais is interrupted by a ghost that asks to him kill someone for him. It would have been interesting to see how he would have helped that ghost without killing someone, but no it's completely ignored. As for the editing, it is absolutely atrocious. So many scenes just abruptly end or seem week because there wasn't enough good material to work with.