This started out quite well, and does have some genuinely touching moments but would have benefitted with half of it being left on the cutting room floor.
I saw no benefit at all to the silly government agency plot at all. This could have played out much better and been a more appropriate length if that entire section had been cut out. The search for whatever happened to "Ernest" and the reveal would have been just fine without any need for the running from the police and escaping from the government facility nonsense. That section made me tune out a bit in the mid portion of the film.
For me, this could have almost been a 7 due to the endearing performances of the main young lad actor and David Harbour, but it fell short because they just tried to cram too much in and it felt like a bit of a muddled mish mash of genres. As a touching drama about a ghost in limbo yes, add in the action comedy . . not so much. I also found it a little odd that at the climax of the film they seemed to put too much emphasis on the relationship between the ghost and the boy when his actual daughter is standing back watching his final moments as an entity on earth.
I saw no benefit at all to the silly government agency plot at all. This could have played out much better and been a more appropriate length if that entire section had been cut out. The search for whatever happened to "Ernest" and the reveal would have been just fine without any need for the running from the police and escaping from the government facility nonsense. That section made me tune out a bit in the mid portion of the film.
For me, this could have almost been a 7 due to the endearing performances of the main young lad actor and David Harbour, but it fell short because they just tried to cram too much in and it felt like a bit of a muddled mish mash of genres. As a touching drama about a ghost in limbo yes, add in the action comedy . . not so much. I also found it a little odd that at the climax of the film they seemed to put too much emphasis on the relationship between the ghost and the boy when his actual daughter is standing back watching his final moments as an entity on earth.