Ghosted
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Year Released: 2023
Rating: 1.0
Farmer Cole (Chris Evans) and Sadie (Ana de Armas) - who claims she's an "art curator" - have a meet-cute moment at a market, spend a little bit of time together and then she splits and doesn't respond to any of his text messages (even the ones with emojis) so he tracks her down to London ... where it turns out she's an agent for the CIA and has to prevent lunatic Leveque (Adrien Brody) from unlocking a biological weapon called Aztec. It's really a two-hour advertisement for Apple - the AirTag is a key plot device, everyone has the latest iPhone, there's a valuable Passcode that the baddies want - since the storyline is more international intrigue nonsense with poor stylistic decisions ("My Sharona" during a bus chase?) and an inane finale "borrowed" from the John Wick series. There are numerous cameos from the MCU team (including Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan and Ryan Reynolds) that are merely fan service ... and director Fletcher has a cameo at the end where he's been shoved into the boot of a car. Hey buddy, you're not Hitchcock.