I like Ana De Armas and only because of what could have been, following her brilliant appearance in "No Time To Die". An action star in the making.
We have a script that provides "a twist" on the classic male action hero and the girl he saves. The twist is nothing more than female action hero saves the boy.
Ghosted is trying to be everything, that some tick box film makers thinks makes a good film.
Ghosted - title that should appeal to a modern audience - TICK
Female action hero - should appeal to a modern audience - TICK
Big name cameos - should appeal to an audience looking for big name stars - TICK
When you have so many better examples of action films (John Wick say), this just looks cliched.
A plot we have seen a million times before.
Some world destroying thing.
Action sequences that were done better nearly 40 years ago (Die Hard, Indiana Jones etc).
Boy meets girl and falls head over heels (except he is chuffing over 40 years old and not a chuffing teenager with a crush).
Cliche after cliche after cliche.
Some OTT accented bad guy making speeches (far longer than he should) before killing good guy/gal but unfortunately his big mouth has allowed the good guy/gal enough time to have an escape route. That kids stuff.
Neatly tied ending (literally cliche).
Not an ounce of originality in this film.
I suspect they wanted an action film as a vehicle for Ana De Armas and something that kept Chris Evans in the genre.....but because both are getting older and it takes a while to find a good action script with originality.....they thought a film where the roles are reversed must be original (obviously they haven't seen a Long Liss Goodnight)......it isn't.
Masking a pedestrian cliched plot with the title "Ghosted" doesn't hide the fact that it's a pedestrian and cliched film.
Honestly, if you just want to switch off your brain and see pretty people do colour by numbers story telling then watch this otherwise there's loads of more content out there to occupy your time.
General verdict on the reviews is don't bother. I agree. Don't.
No one will remember this film....ever.
