It's a romantic comedy with a surface veneer of action!
A man and a woman get together, and when the woman ghosts him, he decides to stalk her. But she's a working woman and doesn't have time for love, but can he get beneath her tough exterior and will they end up together? ... which is presented as a good thing to want...
Oh, and there's an "action" movie layered over this, with agents and fighting and wanting to get some MacGuffin or another and all that that really means is a) the occasional five minute scene of fighting, and b) cameos by actors that Chris Evans knows. [And Ryan Reynolds, 'cos he seems willing to cameo in anything.] Adrian Brody does his best, but he's only getting in the way of the romance we are following.
So I'm coming across as a bit down on the action side and.. yeah, frankly I don't know why they really bothered. Was it to trick people into thinking "we're gonna get a big budget action sequence" and watch it that way? It's on Apple, it's not like they are needing to sell tickets to this. They could have just gone into the romantic comedy stuff, and people will watch because well... Chris Evans and Ana De Armas (and he is definitely getting higher billing that she did). It's fine, but just drags the movie out longer than it needed to be.
There's a core of a decent movie here that could have worked, but someone decided to pitch it as something else.
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