Other than "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown," I knew nothing of Roman Polanski's work, and the truly odd collection of Polanski films that the Alamo Drafthouse was using as its pre-movie entertainment was beginning to make me nervous. I had nothing to be nervous about though. Polanski is obviously a master and "The Ghost Writer" is proof."The Ghost Writer" is about, well, a ghost writer (they never say his name!) played by Ewan McGregor. He is contracted to finish the memoir of fictional British Prime Minister, Adam Lang, played by Pierce Brosnan. The memoir is unfinished because the previous ghost writer is now a ghost, and the circumstances of his death become increasingly intriguing the deeper McGregor's character gets into the life of Brosnan's Blair/Bush like Prime Minister. There is an incredible amount of intrigue and mystery and just when you think you know where everything is going, the rug gets pulled out from under you.
Everything about this film is absolutely brilliant. Polanski's writing and directing are amazing, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, and Olivia Williams, as Lang's wife, are all thoroughly engaging and convincing, the story is all intrigue and mystery, the ending is surprising, shocking, and coldly morbid, yet all too real, and the entire movie mirrors real life almost too accurately. I'm sorry if I'm being a bit general, but I don't want to ruin a moment of this suspense masterpiece.
"The Ghost Writer" is a thoroughly engaging and masterfully executed suspense thriller and well worth seeing again and again.
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