I was really looking forward to this film given the cast and director. Two hours of my life I will never get back. Pedestrian plot with no real tension. Direction which came close to being a parody. And the most wooden and uncomfortable acting imaginable. Nobody involved can have been happy with the outcome.

Though the movie has suspense till the end,the ending is quite lame. I felt very bad about wasting my time on such a pathetic ending movie.

Suspenseful and intriguing is the best way to describe this film. What is interesting is it has no action scenes and you don't witness any murders but the intensity is still there. A simple position involving being the ghost writer for a controversial leader uncovers more mysteries than answers. Ewan McGregor's character finds more questions than answers. The film is non-stop in its pace as we get deeper. Not a bad film and definitely worth a watch.

Whatever one may think of Polanski, he can direct a fine thriller. Many of his movies have this quality - they don't seem to be part of a grand director's oeuvre, but are full, fine, successful projects. This is a taut, slightly spooky political thriller in which Ewan MacGregor plays a ghost writer - a replacement ghost writer, since the first guy mysteriously died - for a smooth British politician (Brosnan). There is nothing to complain about here - locations, performances, imagery, low key soundtrack - all of it is first rate. There are dashes of Hitchcock and classic mysteries. The ending is a little unsatisfying, but it has the right paranoid scope.