PhantomKnight
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Post by PhantomKnight on Jul 16, 2023 17:14:57 GMT -5
I'm disappointed, though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by, the results of Ghosted. With these stars and a director with a previously solid track record, the talent is certainly here to provide an at the very least enjoyable action rom com, but oh how expectations can be a fickle thing... Ghosted falls prey to a lot of the same issues that plague a bunch of these other straight-to-streaming action movies, chief among them being a lackluster script that recycles tired-out tropes while thinking it's being clever and funny. Credit where it's due, however, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas DO have good chemistry (not a big shock, though, based off their scenes together in Knives Out), and the scenes that just allow them to play off of each other are actually pretty fun. The problem is just that pesky action plot, which curses this movie with a case of mediocrity that it can never overcome. You would think that having the Deadpool writers on scripting duties would help give this thing a bit more life, but even they can only do so much with the exhausting espionae cliches that plague this story. On the bright side, though, the movie isn't without its moments of inspiration, such as a sequence that sees a rotating door of surprise cameos of people that promptly get killed off in rapid succession. But moments such as those are pretty few and far between, and the rest of the time, this movie settles for just played-out tropes and plot machinations while only offering occasional glimpses of hope. Sidenote: what was up with the random use of Uptown Funk during part of the climax? Ghosted feels like a pretty apt title, too, because this movie feels destined to fade into the ether of your memories not long after you watch it.
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Post by Dracula on Oct 1, 2023 18:50:34 GMT -5
Ghosted(8/6/2023) Most of what I’d heard about this Apple TV+ original film was not good; something about this movie really seems to be making people mad. I’m not quite sure I get why because if anything the movie is just kind of painfully mediocre in the way that lots of straight to streaming movies are. The idea behind the movie is to combine romantic comedy with a sort of James Bond-y spy action movie. The basic premise is that it follows a man played by Chris Pine living in a small town who strikes up a relationship with an art dealer played by Ana de Armas only to learn that she is not in fact an art dealer but is instead a secret agent and soon he accidentally finds himself in the middle of one of her wacky missions. That’s not a great premise but it is a fun enough high concept to have some potential but I don’t think this movie really lives up to it. One the romcom side the movie’s central relationship feels kind of contrived and the chemistry between the leads isn’t really there to make their bickering during the high stress sections feel “cute” rather than grating. On the spy movie side the whole plot they’re facing just feels kind of cartoonish in a way that was probably deliberate but doesn’t really go all the way into parody so it just kind of feels second rate instead. Like a lot of Apple TV+ films this has a lot more money and talent behind it than you would expect (with Dexter Fletcher directing and two major stars in the lead) but still definitely feels like something that would not function if they tried to put it on the big screen. It’s the kind of movie that feels like it was made to merely be “content.” ** out of Five |
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