Argylle

Starts out great with how it set up the main character, and some Kingman-style fun. Then at the first twist it starts to get a little far fetched. Then with each other twist it gets more convoluted. I still can't understand certain details of the backstory. And the CGI is terrible. But it told this nonsense story in an engaging way, and had lots of fun scenes in it. There wasn't a single shot in the colored smoke scene that looked real, yet I still loved every second of it.

Think of all the spy series you've ever watched. Argylle comes and puts it all on the table in the most absurd way possible. The action, comedy, romance and twists are endless. I laughed a lot and had a great time. Enjoy the movie without taking it seriously.

This is going to go down as the worst film of 2024. I dare another film to be as bad as this thing.

Potentially a new guilty pleasure for me. It’s borderline ridiculous and eventually becomes so unhinged that you cant take any of it serious, and it’s hard to feel like there are any high stakes. Yeah, some of the dialogue is pretty bad and there are a couple of dumb reveals, but MAN is it a fun movie. I loved the three leads, I loved the absurdity of it all, the acting is all great and I genuinely didn’t see some of those twists coming. Good dumb fun.

A really fun film that is not afraid to commit to comedic and action absurdity. We really do need more films like this. Sam Rockwell is great and I admire his ability to never take himself too seriously. He is a perfect counterpart to BDH who teeters between great and unnatural in a very demanding role where she has to be emotionally complex but also an action star.

It's fun silly bollocks. I can see how it would annoy people, but I enjoyed it.

I rather enjoyed this! I didn't know it was in the universe that it's in, that's my fault/ignorance, but yeah, it's a lot of fun with an unconventional-for-this-genre lead in BDH, all the convolution you'd expect from a spy thriller, and Matthew Vaughn stylishness. Though admittedly, there was too much green-screening and CGI (especially with the cat) which did at times lend the movie the wrong kind of campiness and immersion-shattering. But I'm keen for what's coming next from this universe!

It was trash in many ways but there was Bryce Dallas Howard. Always enjoyable to watch her acting. I am sorry she's got so bad roles in general. That size of badass female leads are not that norm in Hollywood though.

Okay, I had extremely low expectations due to the reviews, but the opening 40 minutes weren't half bad. Though, the action was a bit annoying every time it would switch to and from Henry Cavill. The middle 60 minutes felt longer than that and started to spiral. The final 40 minutes were mind numbingly bad with jaw-dropping terrible action set pieces. I also think it's funny that Sam Jackson clearly showed up for a maximum of two days for filming.

The actors were entertaining, but the plot was stupidly insane. They would have you believe in total mind control, and memory manipulation to pull off this atrociously contrived story. I liked the action, and really enjoyed Bryce Dallas Howard. Turn your brain off an enjoy it a bit. Otherwise, if credibility matters to you, forget it.

Vaughn's style can't save it. Bad CGI, choppy script, some hokey acting. Tonally inconsistent. I dig some of it but there are parts where I'm just like, "What?" The coloured smoke fight scene is kinda cool and kinda dumb at the same time, and Vaughn is capable of more. The skating crude oil scene is a perfect example of what this does wrong... the action can be over the top, but it has to look good, feel good, and this doesn't. Lots of plot twists, but the length crushes a lot of the thrills.

It is fun but you cannot take it seriously. It has its weakness and it is often re-using similar ploys for the action scenes, and the plot takes a million twists and turns, some fun and unexpected, some a bit far-fetched and contrived. Costumes are ugly (on purpose?). The CGI was not good, which should be puzzling considering the studios involved. Some camerawork/edit are entertaining. Once you understand what genre of movie it is, then you forgive more and enjoy. Rockwell does his thing.

It seems Vaughn can't stop making spy satires & that would be ok if this were funny, but if reviews & those around me were any indication: it isn't. For most people it will just be silly & over-the-top: deliberate camp that isn't funny. This is Kingsmen that has characters commenting on how silly fictional spies are & then those characters become even sillier themselves. There are plenty of huge twists so it's not predictable, but as the twists keep coming, it just becomes tiresomely laugh-free

Honestly I found it tolerable. Though my DBOX seat was broken and I got a free ticket at the end. So that kinda colors it. It's really weird, and campy, and kind of knows what it's doing, but also does not at all? The whole thing takes place on a green screen and you can't tell if it was due to COVID restrictions or Vaughn trying to make the campiness as heightened as possible? The ending takes a hard left turn and the post credit scene turns, again, harder? It's certainly interesting at least

Not bad

There are little bits and pieces of a good movie buried in Argylle, but the messy plot switches far too quickly from idea to idea without developing any element fully. The juxtaposition of the novel characters with their real-life counterparts is cool, but abandoned by the middle of the film, and other elements such as an underutilized Samuel L Jackson cameo and Elly's relationship with her parents are similarly under-served. It's also a surprisingly long film for how little it has to say.

Why is it so bad?

This was a criminal misuse of nearly the entire cast for what was a fever dream of "it could have be so much better if ..." all the way through

Pretty good in all it's crappyness.

Absolute trash dumb guy stuff with unmemorable characters and a trope-filled plot. I deeply wish I hadn’t seen this but I sat patiently in that cursed theater, wishing it would get better eventually. It never did.

I've always disliked those 'fiction jumps off the page' conceits, they always come across as both half-hearted and self-indulgent (for some reason The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005) comes to mind as a typical example). This one is no exception.

The movie was too long; although it was funny and interesting in some parts, the middle section was boring and predictable

This is getting absolutely dragged everywhere. It's not a good movie, but I don't think it's quite as awful as some are making it out to be. It's a pure popcorner and at that it's not as entertaining as Vaughn's Kingsmen series. It's main issue is that it confuses plot twist for plot, fitting an absurd number of ridiculous twists into its run time. Villain motivation is a bit unclear as well. There are some fairly creative action scenes, but they're also very dumb.

As literary conceits go, it’s honestly better than American Fiction at portraying the kind of mediocrity gobbled up by the masses. But it bleeds into the film itself, a very dumb espionage thriller that isn’t much fun until the last 45 minutes. Definitely needed another pass in the editing bay. Ariana DeBose: wasted in the movie, coming THROUGH on the soundtrack.

As goofy as it gets, with a swiss cheese plot, but still entertaining nonetheless. While Bryce Dallas Howard is not very believable as a badass super spy, her charming performance is a highlight. Just don't take it too seriously and keep your hands inside the car at all times in preperation for the 4.2 billion plot twists.

Some films are more than the sum of their parts; Argylle is the rare case where a film is less than the sum of its flaws. The worst offender is the egregious use of bad CGI. From explosions that look fake to colourful fight scenes that seem lazily lifted from a Kingsman film, Vaughn showcases stylisation gone wrong. Fuchs screenplay is lacklustre featuring an excessive number "twists" that are ultimately quite dumb. Rockwell is the saving grace of the film, despite the star-studded cast.

So so so bad... :( Sam, why? :(

Although I like over the top action comedies, this one just didn't sit well with me.

#24#, rw3, popcorn, story, director Vaughn, cast

Definitely a movie for the superintelligent among us!

It's as if AliExpress, Temu, and Wish made a movie. So much money went into it, advertising for it was everywhere and was often weird and misleading. Then when we see it in person, it's shit and we want to throw it out.

This movie was weird. Felt bullet train fun to get going and then devolved into an over the top spoof that'd have naked gun cringing. Great actors, just a weird peyote trip of a flick in the final act. 5.4

audiovisual 66 acting 68 overall feeling 75 avg 70

This thing has more twists and turns than an actual game of Twister at a contortionist convention. I REALLY wanted to like this more than I did. The trailer looked dope and Argylle has a stellar cast. Unfortunately, aside from maybe two-three action sequences, the action was lacking, often off-screen. There was one particular plot-twist that was broadcasted from the start (the title is a hint), but I just didn’t care for it. The soundtrack also didn’t do it for me.

I enjoyed this more than I enjoyed Kingsman The Secret Service tbh.

Not as terrible as the trailer suggest but overall another unfunny mess from Matthew Vaughn. A romantic comedy about a boring, lonely, bestselling, spy author would be much more interesting.

It was not as bad as I anticipated, and yet, still not that good.

25. Argylle (2024) Yılın ilk büyük hayalkırıklığı. Bryce Dallas Howard bence çok yanlış seçim, Henry Cavill ve John Sena tam bir filme gel gel "yem"i, göz kanatan CGI. Çok büyük beklentilerle gittim, üzüntü ile çıktık salondan :( 3/10