Maybe people were expecting too much: when the Ghosted trailer was released, there was a bit of Internet gum-flapping about the alleged lack of chemistry between them. Evans and de Armas have appeared onscreen together before-in Rian Johnson’s sprightly 2019 murder mystery Knives Out, as well as in the less satisfying thriller The Gray Man, from 2022-and there was no reason to doubt they’d click in a romantic comedy. That’s not to say Ghosted doesn’t hit some craggy patches in fact, it rumbles its way over a pretty bumpy one right at the beginning. It would appear, though in his fresh-from-the-lily-pad naivete he can hardly believe it, he’s been ghosted.
He sends an emoji or two-he just can’t stop himself-but no response. He texts her once, twice, thrice and more. Once he’s home-he works on the farm owned by his parents, played by a whiskery Tate Donovan and a dithery Amy Sedaris-he can’t stop thinking about her. He chases after her, she relents, and they share a dreamy date that stretches into the next day. These two bond-or not-when Cole tries to sell Sadie a cactus at the Georgetown farmers’ market where he’s working. Evans’ Cole is a sweet, plant-loving swain who’s been just been dumped by a girlfriend for being too clingy. In Ghosted, directed by Dexter Fletcher, Ana de Armas and Chris Evans play, respectively, a charmer and a farmer: de Armas’ Sadie is a winsome commitmentphobe who’s rattled by a recent loss in her life. When it’s handled with moderate effectiveness, it’s more like gold-plated-though sometimes, for an afternoon or evening’s diversion, that’s enough.
In the world of romantic comedies, the mistaken-identity ruse, handled right, is like gold.
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