They could afford to pay the "Taxman"...

But they couldn't afford to pay the Bolan estate (see links below)? 

My mom and I just finished watching Ghosted on Apple TV+. It's a new Chris Evans movie where the synopsis from Apple TV is:

Salt-of-the-earth Cole (Evans) falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie (de Armas)—but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.

It sounds like your typical chick flick romantic comedy meets action movie, but it had some loopholes in it, that I just can't work out. I haven't been able to watch a movie in years, without nitpicking at it (music, scene goofs, etc). 

I mean, - SPOILER ALERT -  the Bond part of this movie kept referring to Chris Evans as "The Taxman". Which, every time someone said it, they'd start singing the 1966 boy band song. It was starting to get eye rollingly old. 

Especially when there were other songs on the soundtrack, but yet, the official track list doesn't even have any of the aired music - just the instrumental background scene stuff (see here). When you reference a randomly epic glam rock song (T Rex) and you can't even play it, do you even have the dosh to pay the licensing fee for it? Skydance certainly paid enough to keep the Fab Four's estates a little full.

If you Google the trailer, the song played through out the 3 minute and change video is The Proclaimers I'm Going To Be (500 Miles), which is not even in the movie. 

At all. 

Funny thing is this song happens to be a popular tune for movie soundtracks, truth be told, but why use it as a promotional tool and not include in in the movie? 

Weird reference but I get it - because the two characters do actually end up traveling together throughout the movie. So a #win for that?

Also, quick search found the unofficial list of songs in the movie that are no where online to actually purchase as the "OST":

1. Feel It Still – Portugal. The Man

2. Love Is Everywhere (Beware) – Wilco

3. Like Sugar – Chaka Khan

4. Heart of Glass – Deborah Karry

5. Sound & Color – Alabama Shakes

6. Pretty Please – Dua Lipa

7. Last Night – The Traveling Wilburys

8. There’s No Other Way – Blur

9. My Sharona (Re-Recorded) – The Knack

10. Are You Gonna Be My Girl – Jet

11. Baby – Charli XCX

12. Taxman – The Beatles

13. Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars) – Mark Ronson

14. Love Again – Dua Lipa

15. 20th Century Boy – Marc Bolan 

16. Danger Global Warming – The Blacksmoke Organisation 

17. Every Time – APM Music

The other thing I didn't understand was a random location jump. This being a spy movie, the two main characters are all over the place. 

However, - SPOILER ALERT - there's no way you can get from Tower Bridge in London to the middle of the desert in Pakistan thru an underground tunnel. If you're going to gun your way through a maze in London, you're going to end up in either France, Belgium or the Netherlands depending on where you go. Otherwise you end up in Ireland or the ocean. You can't end up in the Middle East by chasing baddies through a cave that doesn't belong in that location. 

I'm not geography / map person, but that just is a big goof, especially when the scene tells you where the character is beginning at that moment (you know.. the title card plays out saying the location as the character is walking in the place). 

I just felt the overall appeal was kind of lost, but not in a total "this is shit" way, but a "if they did a little more research on it, it'd be good" way. Like, "edit it a bit better, please". My mom liked it - it wasn't bad, but she said it worked itself out in the end. Which is why I'm not going to create more spoilers. If you want to see Captain America in a new Apple TV+ production, try it out yourself. 

If anything, do it for the cast list:

Chris Evans

Ana de Armas

Adrien Brody

Mike Moh

Tate Donovan

Amy Sedaris

Lizze Broadway

Mustafa Shakir

Anthony Mackie

John Cho

Sebastian Stan

Ryan Reynolds

Anna Deavere Smith

Tim Blake Nelson

Tiya Sircar

Stephen Park

Humza Shabazz

Burn Gorman

Marwan Kenzari

Israel Vaughan

Victoria Kelleher

Jordan Blair Mangold Brown

Zane Shaw

Stephanie Weis

Dexter Fletcher

Something else needs to be seen before I get too creative in this review...

Cheers;

See also:

• Taxman by the Beatles (off their Revolver album)
• T Rex / Marc Bolan 20th Century Boy (this is a single that isn't found on any album... it's rare enough to not be dropped into a true LP but common enough it's still found in compilations and soundtracks)
• Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 handles great songs like Last Night (track 4) and Handle With Care (track 1). This supergroup is one for the books and has recently been airing in stores, I've noticed. The second album can be a miss, but if the first isn't in your collection, you're missing out. 
• The Proclaimers Sunshine on Leith is where you'll find the twins walking 1,000 miles.