A family moves into a house haunted by a ghost. The youngest son befriends him while the dad exploits him for fame. Then the government gets involved and the man who murdered the ghost comes back to make sure nobody finds out he did it.
This was ALMOST a good movie. The concept was interesting, with the family exploiting the ghost while the son tries to help him but then it goes and tries to add too much, taking it from a simple story into something way more than it needed to be. You can smell producer interference. The entire plot with the government, the way too convenient killer, the car chases, none of that was necessary and actively ruined the story. All they had to do was focus on what mattered and avoid the trappings of a big budget movie and they might have had something. It's not unwatchable, just overlong and bloated.
This was ALMOST a good movie. The concept was interesting, with the family exploiting the ghost while the son tries to help him but then it goes and tries to add too much, taking it from a simple story into something way more than it needed to be. You can smell producer interference. The entire plot with the government, the way too convenient killer, the car chases, none of that was necessary and actively ruined the story. All they had to do was focus on what mattered and avoid the trappings of a big budget movie and they might have had something. It's not unwatchable, just overlong and bloated.