Review of The Ghost Writer

I admire Polanski's movies for their ability to captivate the audience and his suspenseful yet reality based movies. In the GhostWriter the mysterious atmosphere is captured but the characters are uninteresting and unsympathetic and the story is just plain rubbish. The silly twist of making Olivia such a mastermind just seems like a twist for the sake of a twist. And the abrupt death at the end is just too much. There is a weakly explained ending. Brosnan seems rather ill at ease. Olivia Williams's character is too scizo to be realistic. Ewan isn't interesting at all. You just don't care what at happens to him. Kim was fascinating to watch but a bit under utilised. Why did Polanski choose this lame and silly story to make a movie. It was a waste of a good director.