Weak plot but weirdly affecting

Rating: 6/10 (9 November 1999)

I thought the plot in this film was terribly weak and Bruce Willis's acting flat. Moreover, given the sinister overtones, his face is too cherubic and ungrizzled, seeming to smirk in serious scenes. Before seeing this film I had been told there was a big twist at the end but I did not know what it was. All through the film I tried to guess. I came up with the final twist but rejected it a couple of times. It is just too incredible. Now that is saying a lot when the two premises on which the film is based are that some people can see and commune with ghosts while others cannot and that ghosts can move physical objects. All that said, there is something affecting about the film. When I left the cinema the world seemed surreal. For some hours I felt literally uncertain about the people I saw around me and the motives for their behaviour. A weird experience.