History YMMV / Ghosted2023

* CompleteMonster: [[WesternTerrorists Leveque]] is a former member of French intelligence who became a ruthless, [[ArmsDealer arms-dealing]] terrorist, having his enemies assassinated or tortured by his henchman Borislov, even corrupting CIA agent Elena Reznik into working and killing for him. Seeking to sell the dangerous bioweapon "Aztec" to a high-profile buyer, Mr. Utami, to cause the deaths of millions [[{{Greed}} for his own profit]], Leveque has his men abduct and torture who he thinks is the legendary CIA operative "the Taxman" for the Aztec passcode. Indifferent when his men are slaughtered by the real "Taxman", aka Sadie Rhodes, Leveque has one of his own men EatenAlive by bullet ants as a punishment for [[YouHaveFailedMe his failure]] and puts a bounty on Cole, resulting in several assassins killing each other just to bring him to Leveque. After Leveque makes multiple attempts on Sadie and Cole's lives, when Sadie sets up Cole to masquerade as the Taxman and meet Leveque and Utami at a restaurant to sell the weapon, Leveque has the CIA agents monitoring Cole killed and has his henchmen start a shootout to escape with Aztec, betraying and killing Utami and attempting to kill Sadie and Cole.

** For folks who wanted more of Paloma, the CIA agent Creator/AnaDeArmas played in ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', this is likely the closest they'll ever get to a spin-off movie about her (though the ''Franchise/JohnWick'' spin-off ''Ballerina'' is very likely to be more serious in that regard). She even wears a not too dissimilar black party dress when {{kicking ass|In All Her Finery}} at one point. As for the character being named "Sadie", well, spies have [[SecretIdentity aliases]], after all.[[note]]It would be far from the first time a media featuring an actor who appeared in a ''James Bond'' film intentionally appears to make an association with said role, with ''Film/TheRock'' heavily implying that Creator/SeanConnery's character ''is'' his incarnation of James Bond, or Creator/GeorgeLazenby's "J.B." in ''[[Series/TheManFromUNCLE The Return of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.]]''.[[/note]]

** For folks who wanted more of Paloma, the CIA agent Creator/AnaDeArmas played in ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', this is likely the closest they'll ever get to a spin-off movie about her (though the ''Franchise/JohnWick'' spin-off ''Ballerina'' is very likely to be more serious in that regard). She even wears a not too dissimilar black party dress when {{kicking ass|In All Her Finery}} at one point. As for the character being named "Sadie", well, spies have [[SecretIdentity aliases]], after all.[[note]]It would be far from the first time a film featuring an actor who appeared in a ''James Bond'' film intentionally appears to make an association with said role, with ''Film/TheRock'' heavily implying that Creator/SeanConnery's character ''is'' his incarnation of James Bond.[[/note]]

** For folks who wanted more of Paloma, the CIA agent Creator/AnaDeArmas played in ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', this is likely the closest they'll ever get to a spin-off movie about her (though the ''Franchise/JohnWick'' spin-off ''Ballerina'' is very likely to be more serious in that regard). She even wears a not dissimilar black party dress when {{kicking ass|In All Her Finery}} at one point. As for the character being named "Sadie", well, spies have [[SecretIdentity aliases]], after all.

** Creator/BurnGorman has a pretty hilarious scene as a London Cab Driver who is a massive DeadpanSnarker towards Cole's romance with Sadie and his "grand romantic gesture".

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: A number of reviewers negatively compared the movie to its [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessors]] ''Film/TrueLies'' and ''Film/KnightAndDay'', stating that the film rehashes plot points from these and lacks true originality. In addition, while the GenderFlip aspect may also have been seen as a fresh perspective several years before this movie was produced, at the time it came out the pairing of an ActionGirl with a DistressedDude had become too common in mainstream media to be considered a unique selling point anymore.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: A number of reviewers negatively compared the movie to its [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessors]] ''Film/TrueLies'' and ''Film/KnightAndDay'', stating that the film rehashes plot points from these and lacks true originality. In addition, while the GenderFlip aspect may also have been seen as a fresh perspective several years before this movie was produced, at the time it came out the pairing of an {{ActionGirl}} with a {{DistressedDude}} had become too common in mainstream media to be considered a unique selling point anymore.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: A number of reviewers negatively compared the movie to its [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessors]] ''Film/TrueLies'' and ''Film/KnightAndDay'', stating that the film rehashes plot points from these and lacks true originality. In addition, while the GenderFlip aspect may also have been seen as a fresh perspective several years before this movie was produced, at the time it came out the pairing of an {{ActionGirl}} with a {{DistressedDude}} had become too prevalent in mainstream media to be considered a unique selling point anymore.