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If you’re looking for a little pulse-racing, heat-under-the-collar-making rom-com action, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas’ new movie might do it for you.

But you’ll probably have to lower your expectations.

The actors are hot, the plot is a whirlwind, and the action is a riot, but the reviews, unfortunately, are dismal.

The Guardian gave Ghosted one tiny star and said it should be ignored, adding that the big stars “make for a chemistry-free pairing in Apple’s catastrophically misfiring mockbuster”.

I guess it doesn’t always pay to create an action-comedy-romance hybrid designed to appeal to the widest possible audience.

Another line from the Guardian really sets the tone, calling it “a staggeringly, maddeningly atrocious heap of increasingly boneheaded decisions that will act as depressing documentation of just how rotten things got in the current oversaturated streaming landscape”.

Jeez, no mercy. Other reviews say almost the same thing. Here’s Variety:

Directed by the awesomely unsubtle Dexter Fletcher (“Rocketman”), from a what-the-hell-let’s-throw-it-in-there script by four screenwriters (Rhett Reese, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Wernick) that makes you grateful there weren’t four more, the movie is a romantic action comedy that starts off light and breezy but turns, before you know it, into a dead-weight spectacle of wretched excess.

The official synopsis states that salt-of-the-earth Cole (Evans) falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie (de Armas)—but then makes the shocking discovery that she’s a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.

So yeah, you’ll get an espionage-thriller plot that’s just “convoluted yet inconsequential enough to be thoroughly annoying”, with a romantic connection that “doesn’t so much grow and develop as metastasize”.

Give the trailer a watch and decide for yourself:

Ghosted is available on Apple TV+ from today.

[sources:variety&guardian]