Ghosted review: Ana de Armas, Chris Evans action rom-com has a big surprise

ghostthe third film (afterwards) starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas knife out and man in gray), is a featherweight movie. The fact that it’s slick, slight, and often silly doesn’t necessarily matter. lost city again bullet train — It’s easy evening entertainment, casual cerebral relaxation that requires nothing from the audience except sheer intellectual stripping and sheer willingness to put reality aside for a few hours. There’s only one correct way to see , and most people don’t.best way to enjoy ghost To go completely blind.

one of the things to make rocket man The Dexter Fletcher-directed action rom-com is so light that there are few twists or surprises. even that catchphraseAnd that’s something you’ll discover much better if you watch the movie than if you read it beforehand. A big reveal about the villain of terminator 2one twist ghost Given that the film was clearly designed to hide it and reveal it at the right moment for maximum impact, it was unfortunately spoiled in marketing material from the start.

For those viewers who managed to stay pristine, the film follows two people, Cole (Chris Evans) and Sadie (Ana de Armas), who meet at a farmers market and have a nasty, uncomfortable conversation. Register flirting until someone else explains flirting, then continue with more fun things. before sunrise/Lylane– Extended Walk and Talk Date in Style. Afterwards, they find out more about each other than they bargained for, and their banter reverts to sour and snarky for most of the film, between raucous and often clumsy CG-assisted action sequences.

as long as someone talks about it ghost A week from now, it’s supposedly about the sleazy and derisive side of Cole and Sadie’s relationship, and the four-man writing team — dead pool and spider head Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, as well as Chris McKenna and Eric Sommers, writers of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man trilogy, seem to be expecting some adorable and edgy acting. (Haha, these two cute guys really hate each other, gaslighting, manipulating, and verbally attacking each other! So cute! They will definitely get along!) instead it becomes a weird game of “who is bad in this scene?”

Given how the central couple is portrayed, it’s hard to take sides in this particular showdown. One of the least convincing in , and strangely over-involved with his family (Tate Donovan and Amy Sedaris as his parents, Lize Broadway as his way-too-lovey teenage sister). He is also needy, pushy, capricious, prone to terrible decisions, and full of all the above excuses. For her part, Sadie is a collection of sharp-tongued contradictions that add up to little coherent character. The fact that two people accurately and insightfully recognize and point out each other’s shortcomings does nothing to make them more attractive.

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The film’s saving grace is that it is not intended to be specifically presented as a result or taken at face value. is all pretty silly.It’s the moment Reese and Warnick essentially bow out of themselves from the first opening dead pool, a generic mook, separated from his car and flying through the air toward his impending death, falls into super-slow motion, wide-eyed, making desperate eye contact with Cole.So does Adrien Brody ovair-zee-top French accent as Rebec, the film’s main villain. It’s a rom-com, formulaic, pleasant and refreshing, with some action trappings, but no expectations that anyone should care about the consequences of that action.

Instead, ghost While Evans seems to enjoy playing the ill-fated Tagalon, de Armas spin-kicks and shoots through sequence after sequence, filling the space with affable robbers. (“I swallowed rocks,” he moans after tumbling wildly down the hill.) The film also fills the space with cameos. This is another reason to go into the movie blinds. At times, the film plays like a reunion with a loose narrative, dynamics that add to the refreshingness without ruining the film’s already questionable reality.

Yes, there are many reasons why people wouldn’t want to be in a movie this lazy, this sarcastic sarcasm, and not committed to its own weight.That’s why expectations can’t be strained for those who want to see it. ghost, playing Fetch the MacGuffin in a thin and implausible storyline, aside from seeing some charismatic actors tinkering with their own images in comically fun ways.They all seemed to show up as if this was a casual playdate, and it was a fun time that didn’t require any preparation or planning beforehand. ghost More if they take the same approach.

ghost is now streaming on Apple TV Plus.