History Film / Ghosted2023

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Cole performs wrestling moves despite his zero experience in the field.

* DeathByIrony: Right after "God" the bounty hunter says his senses are honed to great heights, he gets run over by the "Grandson of Sam" in a car that he'd not seen or heard coming.

** Creator/AnthonyMackie's bounty hunter proclaims himself to be the "Grandson of [[Characters/MCUSamWilson Sam]]".

** The three bounty hunters trying to collect the price on Cole's head who all get killed in rapid succession by each other are played by Creator/AnthonyMackie, Creator/JohnCho, and Creator/SebastianStan.

** Creator/RyanReynolds has a cameo as Jonas, a bounty hunter who used to date Sadie and apparently lost an eye because of her. He's still friendly with her, however, but ends up losing his hearing in one of his ears after she fires a gun close to it to kill a nearby henchman.

** In his first scene, Cole is established to have digital trackers on some of his things so he won't lose them. After he accidentally leaves his inhaler in Sadie's purse before racing her up the ''Exorcist'' steps, he uses the tracker he has on it to find her location.

* MistakenForSpies: Upon arrival in London, Cole finds himself getting ambushed and abducted by hired men who think that he's a legendary spy called "the Taxman". When Sadie shows up and kills Cole's captors as they're preparing to torture him with insects, he comes to realize that ''she'' is the actual Taxman.

* StartOfDarkness: Leveque, a former French secret agent, relates to Cole that nearly dying near Kabul made him realize how he'd given all he had to his country without gaining anything for himself. The realization convinced him to become a criminal, selling weapons of mass destruction on the black market for profit. Cole, pretending he's a CIA agent, claims later that Leveque's story inspired his own turn to crime and selling Aztec (a WMD).

* TrojanPrisoner: Upon finding out that Cole's would-be torturer wanted to know if he had the password to unlock the briefcase carrying Aztec, Sadie comes up with a new plan to get to Aztec. She delivers Cole tied up and gagged to Leveque, claiming to be a bounty hunter who caught the "Taxman". She then insists on being paid in cash rather than through electronic wire transfer, prompting Leveque to have his henchman Wagner take the two aboard a private jet along with the Aztec briefcase. Her plan is that once they land, they will take out Wagner and his bodyguards, then flee with Aztec. Unfortunately, her ruse is discovered when Wagner scrolls through Cole's phone and finds a selfie he took of himself and Sadie in bed after they had sex. Consequently, Sadie and Cole are forced to fight off Wagner and the bodyguards, then take the briefcase and escape by jumping out of the plane.

* ActorAllusion: Cole's sister says, early in the movie, "[[Creator/ChrisEvans He]] just got back from having sex with a stranger, not [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger fighting the Germans]]."

* ChekhovsSkill: Cole is a farmer with an interest in the way that agriculture has developed in different cultures around the world, which comes in handy several times. He uses his knowledge of healing herbs to make an ointment for Sadie after she gets stabbed and is able to identify the passcode as being [[spoiler:the genetic sequence of amaranth, as it was traditionally used by the Aztecs, which is also the name of the MacGuffin]].

* GrandRomanticGesture: Cole going to London to see Sadie was meant to be one, even though he only met her once. It ends up going horribly wrong.

* TrojanPrisoner: Upon finding out that Cole's would-be torturer wanted to know if he had the password to unlock the briefcase carrying Aztec, Sadie comes up with a new plan to get to Aztec. She delivers Cole tied up and gagged to Leveque, claiming to be a bounty hunter who caught the "Taxman". She then insists on being paid in cash rather than through electronic wire transfer, prompting Leveque to have his henchman Wagner take the two aboard a private jet along with the Aztec briefcase. Her plan is that once they land, they will take out Wagner and his bodyguards, then flee with Aztec. Unfortunately, her ruse is discovered when Wagner scrolls through Cole's phone and finds a selfie he took of himself and Sadie post-coitus. Consequently, Sadie and Cole are forced to fight off Wagner and the bodyguards, then take the briefcase and escape by jumping out of the plane.

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Leveque pulls up Cole's history with the intelligence community, he's listed as having no connections to any intelligence agency. For whatever reason, it also pulls up Target's customer database, where he's mentioned to be a frequent shopper with 2,700 rewards points.

* MistakenForSpies: Upon arrival in London, Cole finds himself getting abducted by hired men who are led to think that he's a legendary spy called "the Taxman". It turns out that ''Sadie'' is the Taxman, a fact Cole finds out when she comes in and kills his captors as they're about to use insects to torture him for information.

* ShoutOut:
** While on their first date, Cole brings Sadie by the staircase from ''Film/TheExorcist'', and is astounded that Sadie has never watched that movie, which he insists is one of the scariest films ever made, much to her amusement. Looking at the texts he sends to her also shows that he's a fan of ''Film/CastAway'', which he also recommends.
** "God"'s scene with Cole and Sadie in the car in the bazaar is reminiscent of when

* StockScream: The henchman that Cole stabs in the face with the potted cactus emits a Wilhelm Scream as Cole subsequently kicks him out of the bus.

* DeathByIrony: Right after "God" the bounty hunter says his senses are honed to great heights, he gets run over by a car that he'd not seen or heard coming.

* ShoutOut: While on their first date, Cole brings Sadie by the staircase from ''Film/TheExorcist'', and is astounded that Sadie has never watched that movie, which he insists is one of the scariest films ever made, much to her amusement. Looking at the texts he sends to her also shows that he's a fan of ''Film/CastAway'', which he also recommends.

* DeathByIrony: Right after "God" the bounty hunter says his senses are hones to great heights, he gets run over by a car that he'd not seen or heard coming.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-flipped; Cole becomes enraged after Sadie gets stabbed and takes down two henchmen to save her.

* MistakenForSpies: Upon arrival in London, Cole finds himself getting abducted by hired men who are led to think that he's a legendary spy called "Taxman". It then turns out that Sadie is the actual "Taxman" they are looking for.

* TrojanPrisoner: Upon finding out that Cole's would-be torturer wanted to know if he had the password to unlock the briefcase carrying Aztec, Sadie comes up with a new plan to get to Aztec. She deliver Cole tied up and gagged to Leveque, claiming to be a bounty hunter who caught the "Taxman". She then insists on being paid in cash rather than through electronic wire transfer, prompting Leveque to have his henchman Wagner take the two aboard a private jet along with the Aztec briefcase. Her plan is that once they land, they will take out Wagner and his bodyguards, then flee with Aztec. Unfortunately, her ruse is discovered when Wagner scrolls through Cole's phone and finds a selfie he took of himself and Sadie post-coitus. Consequently, Sadie and Cole are forced to fight off Wagner and the bodyguards, then take the briefcase and escape by jumping out of the plane.

* ProductPlacement: Naturally for an Creator/AppleTVPlus movie, Cole is seen using an iPhone, while Sadie is shown using a car equipped with Apple [=CarPlay=].

* TrojanPrisoner: Upon finding out that Cole's would-be torturer wanted to know if he had the password to unlock the briefcase carrying Aztec, Sadie comes up with an improvised plan. Posing as a bounty hunter who caught the "Taxman", she delivers Cole to Leveque tied up and gagged. He then tasks his right hand man Wagner with taking them aboard a private jet to extract the information from Cole (and so Wagner can kill Sadie for insulting him). Unfortunately, her ruse is discovered when Wagner scrolls through Cole's phone and finds a selfie he took of himself and Sadie post-coitus.

* BlackTieInfiltration: The climax is set a fancy high-class restaurant where Cole and Sadie try to broker a deal for Aztec with Leveque under the claim that they're going to sell the passcode to him; in reality, this is all a set-up by the CIA. However, Leveque ends up getting wind of the plan and kills the CIA agents monitoring Cole, leading to him and Sadie having to come up with a new and far riskier plan on the spot of selling the passcode to Leveque's buyer for $10 million and then using the money to put a bounty on Leveque's head.

* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Sadie wears a black party dress while wielding a shotgun at one point in the trailer.

* MexicanStandoff: The climax starts with one of these between the ''many'' bounty hunters hidden in the restaurant, which causes the diners to flee before it could erupt into a BlastOut.

* ActionSurvivor: Cole is a civilian with zero field experience and mostly relies on the much more competent Sadie at first, but he gradually becomes better at keeping up with her and getting out of situations.

* GrandRomanticGesture: As seen in the trailer, Cole is encouraged by his mom to fly to London as a romantic gesture for Sadie.

* SpyFiction: Both "Martini" (there's a romance and a female agent KickingAssInAllHerFinery) and "Bathtub Gin Flavored" (heavy involvement of a civilian, Cole Riggan).

** In his first scene, Cole is established to have digital trackers on some of his things so he won't lose them. After he accidentally leaves his inhaler in Sadie's purse, he uses the tracker he has on it to find her location.

* ProductPlacement: Naturally for an Creator/AppleTVPlus movie, Cole is seen using an iPhone.
* RunningGag: Most conversations between Cole and Sadie eventually devolve into them arguing, much to the confusion of everyone else, who tell them to just GetARoom
* ShoutOut: While on their first date, Cole is astounded that Sadie has never watched ''Film/TheExorcist'', which he insists is one of the scariest films ever made, much to her amusement. Looking at the texts he sends to her also shows that he's a fan of ''Film/CastAway'', which he also recommends.

* SpyFiction: From the trailer, it appears to be both "Martini" (there's a romance and a female agent KickingAssInAllHerFinery) and "Bathtub Gin Flavored" (heavy involvement of a civilian, Cole Riggan).