Critics have criticized Ana de Armas and Chris Evans‘ newest movie Ghosted, branding it as “the worst of the 12 months”.
Directed by Dexter Fletcher (recognized for Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody), the action-adventure romance follows Evans as Cole Turner, a farmer who falls for de Armas’ mysterious character, Sadie Rhodes, solely to search out out that she’s a undercover agent.
“Earlier than they will determine on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on a world journey to avoid wasting the world,” the movie’s synopsis reads.
Launched on Apple TV+ on April 21, Ghosted has obtained unfavourable evaluations from critics and at the moment holds a “Rotten” rating of 33% on evaluation aggregator web site, Rotten Tomatoes. Critics have identified an absence of chemistry between the 2 leads, whereas others have criticized the movie’s plot, script and CGI.
The Guardian gave the movie a one-star evaluation, stating: “It’s totally not possible to see the enchantment of Ghosted, the film, a staggeringly, maddeningly atrocious heap of more and more boneheaded choices that can act as miserable documentation of simply how rotten issues received within the present oversaturated streaming panorama.”
Empire additionally criticized the movie, writing: “If you happen to’re going to take a vastly acquainted premise and depend on straightforward star chemistry to promote it, you really want the precise stars in the precise roles and a killer script for all of the killing. Sadly this ain’t fairly it.”
Selection wrote: “The espionage intrigue is rote; the motion is extra bombastic than any rom-act-com can really maintain…The motion on this film doesn’t actually do a lot to deliver the 2 characters collectively, besides to the extent that when it’s over it’s like Novocaine sporting off.”
The Every day Beast went so far as to name it the “worst film of the 12 months”, saying: “That includes not a single convincing aspect or alternate, this fiasco performs like a wannabe-Knight and Day train in eliciting aggravated reactions…”
Ghosted initially had Scarlett Johansson hooked up to star alongside Evans, however she needed to drop out because of a scheduling battle. de Armas changed her in December 2021.
Ghosted is obtainable to stream now on Apple TV+.
Originally posted 2023-04-23 20:45:34.