10 Recent Movies That Were HUGE Ripoffs

In addition to Amazon producing a new TV series based on 2005's hit spy rom-com Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the past few months have been positively littered with similarly espionage-themed meet-cutes.

First up there's Apple's wretched Ghosted, where a man (Chris Evans) learns that his new love interest (Ana de Armas) is secretly a spy. Then came The Family Plan from Netflix, in which Mark Wahlberg plays a former assassin-turned-family man whose past comes back to bite him.

And finally we have Amazon's Role Play, where Kaley Cuoco stars as a wife and mother who also happens to moonlight as an assassin-for-hire.

All three films were summarily panned by critics, and it's little surprise given that they were all just different flavours of ripoff, taking the Mr. and Mrs. Smith/True Lies formula - a love interest/family member is actually a spy/assassin - and listlessly dumping the end result on a streaming service.

To the surprise of no-one, they each evaporated from the cultural consciousness within mere days of release.