Ghost Town

Last night we rented the movie Ghost Town. I'd been mildly curious about the movie when it was out in theaters, but not curious enough to shell out real money for it (we have a Blockbuster plan that lets us trade in 5 movies a month at the store, a good deal that we usually take advantage of). Ricky Gervais is probably most well-known, at least in America, for his work on the British show The Office, which inspired the American version. He plays the same role on the show that Steve Carrell plays in the American Office. Anyway, I like Ricky Gervais, but wasn't crazy about Ghost Town. Gervais himself was fairly mediocre. He seemed a little restrained, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, he can be a little too caustic, but here it came off as a little flat. There were some scenes that dragged on for too long (like the one between Ricky Gervais and Kristen Wiig from SNL who plays his surgeon, where Gervais is trying to get her to tell him what went wrong during his operation), and overall the movie had pacing issues throughout. Greg Kinnear was pretty good, though. I don't usually like him, but I found him more likable in this, where he played a fairly obnoxious guy, than in other movies where he's usually a good guy.
I was surprised to see that Metacritic gave Ghost Town a score of 72 out of 100, I'd expected it to be in the low 60s range.