MrSneakyMan’s review published on Letterboxd:
The sets are amazing. Decrepit, crumbling, cob-web infested Irish castle and surrounding environs.
Peter O'Toole is great. A constantly drunk, perennially suicidal castle/hotel owner prone to engaging in long, florid, operatic speeches to guide his misfit employees.
His employees are great. A brood of chatty Irish working-class lifers from the hinterlands of The Emerald Isle.
Jennifer Tilly and Peter Gallagher are good in very limited screentime.
And then there is the rest of this disjointed mess.
Steve Guttenberg and a woman actually carved from wood, Daryl Hannah, sink like a lead brick in a bog. Every time they are onscreen it kills all the momentum and energy the film had managed to that point.
Martin Ferrero plays an American father and amateur ghost hunter. He's constantly outraged about everything. Screaming and yelling and threatening to leave. Just the worst.
Beverly D'Angelo and Liam Neeson are there. Beverly is given a thankless role in which seemingly her only personality quirks are that she is cold bitch and a creepy size queen -- she takes advantage of a couple of situations to gander at the size of some guys' units and then she remarks on them. This movie hates her character. Liam Neeson is doing his best to play the ghost husband of Daryl Hannah but he is a murderous asshole that we are supposed to kind of forgive for murdering his wife for no reason. And with the ghost stuff, the rules are so loosely defined that it's often unclear what he is supposed be doing and what he potentially could do.
Not a huge cast but too many moving parts. The script can't keep the plates spinning for more than a couple of minutes at a time. It careens like a collapsing junk heap toward an inappropriately cheerful denouement which sees a wife/life swap where Beverly D'Angelo dies, Daryl Hannah claims her corpse as her own rejuvenated body and then scampers off with Guttenberg. Beverly D'Angelo and Liam Neeson pair off in blissful ignorance as ghosts, doomed to haunt the castle forevermore. Yay!