Each era of cinema is defined, at least in part, by the kinds of movies that couldn't have been made at any other time. Which is why, despite boasting an endless mix of masterpieces from around the world, 1970s cinema remains synonymous with sordid vigilante stories about rogue cops fighting to regain some degree of control over a world. increasingly chaotic. Which is why the spate of quasi-Shakespearean high school movies that closed out the '90s became such turbocharged nostalgic fuel after Columbine and 9/11 combined to close out the entire subgenre.
And that's also why glossy pig crap like Apple TV+'s "Ghosted" will prove more instructive to streaming-era history than standouts like "Roma," "The Lost Daughter," or "The Power of the dog". Consider that a lucky break for a paint-by-numbers action movie that feels like it's already been half-forgotten when it starts playing on your TV.
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Chris McKenna
Stars: Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody
Lighter on its feet and less agonizing than last summer's "The Gray Man" (despite sharing two key cast members with the Russo brothers' $200 million spy-versus-spy job), "Ghosted" still manages to feel like a model victim of the recent content wars. Directed by Dexter Fletcher with all the flair and fun he brought to "Bohemian Rhapsody," this genre-bending riff on "The Spy Who Dumped Me" was filmed like a car commercial, lazily taken from an obvious litany of hits from Hollywood real box office. and it constantly betrays the fact that it was made without any real financial interest in being really good.
If anything, "Ghosted" is happy to conjure up the concept of entertainment in the hope that a few pretty faces and a familiar arrangement of flashing lights might be enough to convince the stock market that Apple is investing its money rather than just piss it in the wind. However, if we're lucky, "Ghosted" could also represent the final wail before a mutual retreat.
With Apple and Amazon pledging to invest more than a billion dollars in big-budget theatrical releases that will presumably be made to a higher standard, there is reason to hope that "Ghosted" will be the last time a Netflix competitor spends a fortune on it. an instantly disposable direct-to-broadcast action movie that wastes a fun cast of actors on bad Atlanta green screen. Maybe the studios could afford to pay writers a living wage if they didn't give the writers of "Deadpool" and "Spider-Man: No Way Home" several million dollars for something an AI could produce for the price of a free program. immediate.
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