Pay the Ghost (2015)

Let me start my first review by saying I am a Nick Cage fan. I do not understand why there is so much hate for Cage. Maybe it's because he does too many films. With Cage, you either love him or you hate him. Classic Cage films include Con Air, Face Off, The Rock, Honeymoon in Vegas, Leaving Las Vegas and Moonstruck. And to all those saying he looks old. Age happens. He is 52.If you're looking for a good flick to watch on Halloween then this is it. I won't go too much into detail because it will give away too many spoilers.I really enjoyed this movie. Spooky, a big bad, a couple of jump scenes and a decent story line. I give this movie a 7/10. Some of it could have been better, but overall, I really enjoyed it.

Once a pride actor, now he's doing lots of low cost quick films. The II and III tier directors and producers trying to get the best use of their golden opportunities. So the Nicolas Cage into this after the legal struggle in real life, but people have different opinion without knowing the truth. He definitely would come back to his old form, but it's not known when. All these his recent B films just somewhat shines because of having him onboard. So this flick as well too ordinary and stupid, though watchable because of the Cage.The story was maybe a hundredth adaptation. Anybody with the knowledge of the decent horror films can predict the entire narration. But the different cast, setting, et cetera makes it worth a watch. Definitely not scary or the suspenseful, yet everybody tried their best to make the product better. Only the first half, mostly the first quarter was the better part of the film. So if you pick it on the basis of the story, you will be disappointed badly. This film is not worth unless you're a Cage's fan who backs him every time or love to take chances on the B films. Overall film was okay, but I think the end should have been better. I might have said a few good things about it, but I can't recommend it.4/10

Truth be told, then this 2015 movie starring Nicolas Cage can be summarized with one single word: mediocre.Well, let's just add a bit more of filling to the review anyway, shall we? First of all, I must honestly admit that I had no hopes for this movie, given it being a Nicolas Cage movie after all. I am not a fan of his or his one single expression; constipated. And truth to the tendency, then he doesn't really excel in "Pay the Ghost".The story did have potential, I will admit that much. It is about a vengeful spirit, or ghost if you will, that appear once a year at Halloween to snatch three living children from the world of the the living. But when the ghost takes Charlie (played by Jack Fulton), son of Mike (played by Nicolas Cage) and Kristen (played by Sarah Wayne Callies), a game of ethereal trailing and tracking is set afoot. Mike wants to find and return his son at all costs.Well, it had potential, but it was all drowned in a myriad of predictable situations and outcomes. As such, then director Uli Edel didn't impress much.The effects in the movie were good, and the design of the vengeful spirit was actually quite interesting.But the movie was just a shallow shell of a movie, honestly. It was too predictable to be wholly entertaining, and the few scares that were to be had in the movie was from some really cheap scare tactics; as in jump-out-at-your-face techniques go.And the final showdown between Mike and the spirit, which you saw coming a mile away was about as anti-climatic as it could be. A few measly moments of ethereal pommeling and then it was all over.The acting in "Pay the Ghost" was also mediocre. This was nowhere near being at the top of what Nicolas Cage is actually capable of doing, and Sarah Wayne Callies seemed to be like a drone caught out of the air.Don't get your hopes up for this one. And if you are looking for a scary movie that will have you wishing that you'd left the lights on, then "Pay the Ghost" is not the choice. I am rating it a very mediocre five out of ten stars.

With movies with Nicolas Cage you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes they are bad, sometimes they are good. Pay The Ghost isn't really bad but it isn't the greatest either honestly. But it remains watchable if you have absolutely nothing else to do. I will for sure only watch it once and not a second time. Not that I think I wasted my time or so but it just misses something to make it good. The story is what it is, not really strong, not very frightening either, but not that that bad either. The cast is okay, not great, just okay. it could have used a bit more special effects and scary moments. It's just an average movie, good to watch once and then forget about it.