‘Ghosted’ movie review: Ghost yourself from this Chris Evans, Ana de Armas fever dream
‘Ghosted’ is a film you should watch if you have never been ghosted by someone, just to know how it feels like; only getting over someone might be easier than sitting through this balderdash
(Originally published in The Hindu on April 21, 2023)
Have you ever felt so mentally dead that you end up picturing a mini-version of yourself dancing atop your head to kill time? Hollywood hotshots Chris Evans and Ana de Armas escape bullets and bad guys to retrieve a biological weapon inside a posh restaurant in the third act of this Dexter Fletcher directorial… while we choke on the toxic pixie dust from the plasticky narrative, that is drained by mind-numbingly predictable writing.
Chat GPT could have written a more interesting plotline than Ghosted, another excruciatingly dull actioner with a lot of opulence — big stars, flashy cameos, gorgeous set pieces, and insane production value, enough to suffocate and make you look past the missing novelty.
After her stellar turn in Blonde, Ana de Armas gets an easier paycheque to play Sadie, a young, lonely woman questioning her career after a co-worker’s death. At a market, she goes to a stall where freshly-heartbroken farmer Cole Turner (Evans) helps her choose a house plant that doesn’t need love for months. She is torn between one that can die in days and a cactus that can survive for weeks. She eventually chooses the former, irking Cole’s good consciousness. An argument ensues and dies, but Cole sees some spark underneath all the tension; he asks her out and she agrees, and they go on a long date. It’s the routine movie meet-cute; starts with….
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