Word: ghosting
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...promotional material for the greatly publicized Ghost calls the movie startling. Startling maybe if you've never seen sap running from the trees in springtime. The subtitle for the movie is "Believe," but you're more likely to believe peace breaking out in the Middle East than most of this peripatetic plot...
...audience was guffawing instead of sobbing. But it takes a lot of chutzpah to do things as badly as the cast and crew of this movie does, and I have to admit that, in a perverse way, I respect that. And, aesthetic sensibilities be damned, I liked seeing Ghost, and after a few, I might even see it again...
...remarkable unevenness of the film is the fault of director Jerry Zucker. Zucker just had too much success with his smash-hit comedy Airplane, and now he tries to make everything funny. This movie admittedly should have some light moments, but sometimes it seems giddy on helium. Ghost is often funny, but it is more often ludicrous...
...movie create a persuasive universe if it doesn't abide by its own rules? Both of these Ghost stories take grave liberties with the laws of physics. In the Cosby film, no one can see Dad at first; then only his children; then everybody, if the lights are low and the plot requires it. He walks on floors but falls calf-deep into a carpet. In Ghost Sam can walk through some walls but not others. At the climax, he wastes time trying to persuade Molly to open her door when he has the power to unlatch...
This skeptic makes the gloomy bet that viewers will defy logic and trust Ghost. Just as Field of Dreams evoked tears over a game of catch with a dead father, Ghost will touch moviegoers with its heavenly message that love can raise the dead...