Considering Apple TV+ started producing and distributing original content just seven years ago, the streamer has built an amazing catalog, with wonderful limited and/or ongoing series such as “Black Bird” “Ted Lasso,” “Shrinking,” “Five Days at Memorial,” “Shining Girls” and “Pachinko,” and outstanding feature films including “Causeway,” “Palmer,” “Sharper,” “Spirited” and the Oscar-winning “CODA.” You could spend a month watching nothing but Apple originals and never have a bad day.
Alas, you can spend nearly two hours watching the slick, cynical, vapid and brain-numbing actioner “Ghosted” on Apple TV+ and find yourself regretting the decision pretty much every predictable and overblown step of the way. Despite the star power and charisma of Chris Evans and Ana de Armas as the leads, this spy spoof adventure comedy is just as loud and dumb as a number of recent high-profile Netflix actioners, e.g., “Red Notice” with Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson, and “The Gray Man” with Ryan Gosling, Regé-Jean Page — and Evans and de Armas. (They also were in “Knives Out” together.)
