Ghostbusters Reviews: 10 Reactions You Need To Know

The marketing for Ghostbusters never really put an emphasis on the villain character, a weird guy named Rowan played by actor Neil Casey, and there's a good reason for that according to the early reviews: he's pretty lacking as a character.

Germain Lussier's mostly positive review over at Gizmodo nicely sums up the overall consensus with regards to this particular narrative irk:

"Played by Neil Casey, the character is nearly a non-entity. We know he doesn’t like people and is trying to open a portal to another dimension. How he figured out to do this is fuzzy (he’s a genius, we’re told), his motivations aren’t particularly believable (he was mistreated as a child) and the plan itself doesn’t really make much sense (bring ghosts back to kill people). Rowan is a character literally placing obstacles in the way for the Ghostbusters. He does some cool things, especially toward the end, but he’s never a true threat, so there’s no tension."

It's somewhat telling that so many of the reviews actually fail to make reference to the film even having a villain at all, which kind of makes sense if he's as forgettable as Lussier claims.

Oh, well: room for improvement in the inevitable sequel, perhaps?