You cant sum it up in one line

Rating: Null/10 (14 March 2001)

***************************SPOILERS************************************* IF YOU ARE READING THIS TO DESCIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO SEE THE MOVIE AND HAVE SOMEHOW NOT HEARD SPOILER DETAILS ALREADY THEN READ NO FURTHER. THIS MOVIE IS DESTROYED FAR MORE THAN MOST BY SUCH INFORMATION AND IT IS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW.
All talk was about this movie by the movie watchers and anyone else who had ssen it and there is alot to talk about, it is possibly one of the best first-time experiences, but repeated viewings I believe really wear it thin.
I will never know if I could have predicted the ending because it was destroyed for me weeks before I used the cinema entrance. The movie is definitely not run of the mill, more than standard quality but it is clear to see plot faults and severe borrowings in it.
Have you ever thought about the idea of a modern day ghost walking around and not realising they were dead, what if Patrick Swayze had gone on longer after he had pursued the bad guy not realising he was dead, or the idea of a person being able to see them like Woopi Goldberg could hear them, how freaked out would you be growing up with that. These are some pretty good "the drive home after the movies" discussions. How could Bruce Willis have gone on after the first night without realising it. Think about the living complications we all experience every day, things we take for granted. Where was he when his body was taken away in an ambulance, or better still at the funeral. And his employers, when they heard about his death how would he have got the file he was reading when he first saw the kid, he must have been issued it.
They light-speeded over the "they only see what they want to" didn't they, so if he moves around objects that dont really exist or are'nt really moving like the pen and paper as he was analysing the kid, or the tape recorder, where does the line get drawn, it was an extremely general statement, and if nobody else can see or here the ghosts then how the hell did he get a tape recording of the voice of the guy who didn't want to die, it was a great emotional and shock device but a major implausability in actual screenwriting. The second time I saw this at the movies a few of the holes surfaced to my vision, the third, on video they were as clear as daylight, and the fourth has certified me.
And Cole spent half an hour talking to absolutely nobody while his mother was a dozen feet away in another room, why exactly would she say "you've got 5 minutes" to Cole, we were meant to assume at the time that she was talking to Bruce but when the ending comes it just falsifies that part. And when Bruce Willis threw that rock at the jewelry store window, everybody stared, in ghost they had fun with that sort of thing but with the conjured up spirit world in this it once again is a major glitch for it. How could they have seen something that was not there.
I actually think the director thought the movie was too dull at final cut and shot the new ending for interests sake, so it is either bad writing or bad editing.
Production Values 2/2, Acting 2/2, Screenplay 0.5/2, Quality and Meaning 0.5/2, Originality, 1.5/2

6.5/10