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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Answer The Call...
After an increase in ghost sightings around their city, two paranormal enthusiasts team up with a nuclear engineer and a subway worker to investigate the validity of the encounters. They soon learn of an otherworldly threat that only they have the experience, ingenuity, determination and tools to stop.
Erin Gilbert is a professor at Columbia University who is looking forward to getting tenure until a book she wrote with a childhood friend puts that in jeopardy so she must make a deal to get it out of publication. Abby Yates is Gilbert’s childhood friend who has continued her study of the paranormal at a technical college and gets Erin to introduce her to someone who has experienced a haunting. Jillian Holtzmann is an eccentric engineer who has been working with Yates at the college to obtain irrefutable evidence of supernatural manifestations. Patty Tolan works for the MTA and contacts the three women after witnessing an apparition with perceived malicious intent in a subway line. Rowan North is an occultist who plans to break the barrier that separates the living world from the spirit world using equipment he has built based on theories in Gilbert & Yates’ book.
Ghostbusters is a fun movie that has the unenviable job of rebooting a cinematic classic for modern audiences while still playing to the nostalgia of older viewers with strong loyalty to the original. In my humble opinion this film is not as good as the original Ghostbusters but it is better than Ghostbusters 2 and does a great job of laying the groundwork for a multiple movie franchise. For those who remember the different cartoon series I would have to say this movie lives up to the bar set by The Real Ghostbusters with the cool equipment of Ghostbusters Extreme and way better in quality when compared to Slimer & the Real Ghostbusters. Kristen Wiig, Mellissa McCartney, Kate McKinnon & Leslie Jones characters are not just female versions of Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler & Winston Zeddemore and the supporting cast does a supreme job of grounding this story in the real world. Paul Feig’s directing is on point and even though this motion picture may have its flaws in tone at times, you can’t deny that a good time is had through out the viewing. I rate this movie a 4 out of 5.
P.S. I suggest you stay around to enjoy the funny closing credit sequences if you are a fan of Chris Hemsworth and I must let you know that there is a stinger at the very end of the end credit crawl that is a nice bit of Ghostbuster fan service.
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See other reviews by Rouén HERE.
Rouén Robinson has been an
avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures
for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for
The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for F
LIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen
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