Ghost on the high definition Blu Ray format is released on the Paramount label who are very hit and miss when it comes to releasing catalog titles. Their release of Gladiator last year was a shoddy poor excuse for a Blu Ray and is on my major issues list, that release was truly terrible and riddled with issues and you can read more about that by clicking here.
Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen are a very happy couple who have just moved into a new home, on their way home from a night out a mugger tries to steal something off Molly, he runs away and Sam runs after him and confronts him, Sam ends up being killed and he returns as a ghost, he comes across Oda Mae Brown who is a psychic and the only one who can see him, together they must try and warn Molly of impending danger to her life and only then can Sam rest in peace.
Ghost features fab performances from the cast, Demi Moore plays Molly with Patrick Swayze as Sam and Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown.
The scene where Molly sheds a tear as Sam lifts a coin and the music score swells is an emotional and memorable moment, it's about love and losing the people close to you, it's romantic and the film is positive and has hope in it, the hope that we get to say a proper goodbye to those we lose and that it's perfectly okay to show emotion and tell someone you love them.
Image quality on this disc is excellent. This release is one of Paramount's better releases. The grain structure is intact and the detail levels are high and i noticed no troublesome compression issues. There is lots of fine detail on display and this represents the cinema look.
Sound quality was fine, the music score which is superb came across especially well and i always found speech easy to hear, the surrounds are used for the occasional effect and for ambience, the subwoofer does not go really deep but it comes into play for some scenes.
Ghost is not region coded and can be played anywhere in the world.
Check out some blu ray screencaps of Ghost below. Double click for the full HD image.
