Like a cake - a thick layer of sticky icing with a bit of substance

Rating: 5/10 (4 April 2015)

You can honestly skip the first half hour of Ghost. Its not worth your time. All you need to know is that Patrick Swayze is handsome, Demi Moore is cute and they love each other. A lot. Like seriously, they love each other. They even make clay together.
Still with me? OK, good. Once Swayze's character is killed, the story picks up. Swayze performs well as Wheat, his grief and his anger bubble on Swayze's face. When Whoopi Goldberg pops into the story as Oda Mae Brown, she provides a bit of entertainment but I know she's capable of more. Moore is great at the emotional side of Molly, but doesn't do much more than that. Vincent Schiavelli pops up as a poltergeist haunting the subways in New York, probably the most interesting character. A little bit of imagination gives Schiavelli's character incredible depth. The way Swayze interacts (or rather doesn't) with the other characters is very well executed, and requires good acting chops from all involved. The pacing is good but writing a bit sloppy.
There is a reason the only thing anyone ever thinks of from this film is the clay scene. The music and chemistry between Moore and Swayze are the film's strongest assets.
Ghost is sweetly sentimental, a nice watch, but definitely didn't deserve two Oscars, and didn't touch me in the way I had hoped it would.