In all his athletic scenes, leaping through doors, leaping between uptown and downtown trains, leaping on an assortment of villains, Swayze is just fine. All this he does, no matter how implausible the surroundings you even begin to suspect that certain scenes were earmarked Swayze Shirt Opportunity. With some of its actors-Demi Moore as the cracked-voice, desolate lover Whoopi Goldberg as an extremely reluctant spirit go-between and Vincent Schiavelli as an irascible, subway-dwelling ghost who will teach our novice tricks of the nether world-things are in the best hands possible.īut Patrick Swayze as a corporate New York banker? The filmmakers know Swayze’s appeal perfectly well: He has to move, he has to turn dancing into an act of lovemaking and he has to take his shirt off more often than Sigourney Weaver. But even those who’d be happy to comply must get past “Ghost’s” one casting jaw-dropper, a certain woolly-mindedness to its script and a production prettified to the point of stickiness.
The movie’s slogan is “Believe,” not an unreasonable request. In our increasingly fragile and unpredictable world, “Ghost"(citywide) might well strike a seductive chord: a lover from the afterlife hovering over his beloved to keep her from harm, trying to communicate the love he couldn’t express to her in life.
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