Argylle full movie download
Argylle is directed by Matthew Vaughn and it stars Bryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway, a novelist whose series of spy novels mysteriously mirror real world events, to the point of seemingly predicting the future.
As a director, Mattheew Vaughn has made his share of films that I’ve really enjoyed. I recently rewatched Kingsman: The Secret Service and had a fun time watching, as has been the case with previous movies such as Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class. But he’s recently made some duds, them basically being the following Kingsman films.
Contrary to what the trailers may show, Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell are the leads in this movie and they’re both perfectly serviceable. As characters on their own, they each have their own quirks and personalities that do just enough to make the movie watchable, but the odd thing is the lack of real chemistry that they share together.
I wish I could say that there were other supporting roles that help the movie, but that’s not the case. Bryan Cranston plays the typical evil government agent who has nothing to do outside of just barking orders and mean-mugging a computer screen and Samuel L. Jackson doesn’t even show up until roughly the halfway point of the film, despite the marketing making him seem like a major player.
I also reached a point where I was waiting for that damn cat to have some relevance. You know that ugly CGI cat that’s been featured so prominently in the marketing? It turns out that it’s in the movie about as much as Henry Cavill and it doesn’t have anything to offer outside of just being a cat.
There’s an attempt at some type of set up with Sam Rockwell’s character being allergic to it, but that disappears as quickly as it’s brought up.
Speaking of ugly CGI, this movie certainly has plenty of that. Prior Vaughn films have had their share of questionable CGI and one could argue that it’s part of the charm depending on the film, but here there’s no excuse. With a budget of $200 million, it’s baffling the amount of obvious green screen and horrible CGI that’s present.
CGI actors are very apparent in some of the action scenes and there’s even one moment featuring Henry Cavill driving a car that looks like it’s straight out of any sitcom scene where the actors are very obviously driving in front of a green screen with a fake looking background for scenery.
But in those, there’s the excuse of it being a low-budget sitcom. Here, it’s $200 million. We’ve even seen recent examples in The Creator and Godzilla Minus One that blockbuster films can have relatively small budgets and make the most of their budgets with some really great CGI. Not the case with Argylle.
From a writing standpoint, I’m borderline convinced that this is a movie that’s the result of experimentation with AI writing a film. It really feels like the studio had ChatGPT write a spy movie and the result was it just regurgitating not only rehashed spy tropes, but also various plot twists that have come from better spy films.
This movie also doesn’t wholly capitalize on just being a mindless, fun action flick. I already mentioned the bad CGI, but even the action’s internal logic can’t follow through in some scenes. For example, there’s one brief scene involving oil that had the potential to be a great action sequence and it actually starts out decently enough.
I’m also at a point where I’m just sick of every movie in Hollywood trying to be franchised and this movie has that. I won’t spoil anything here, but this movie has the gall to try and set something up in a mid-credits scene and that was the final nail in the coffin for me and this movie. I basically just washed my hands with this movie and said “No, fuck this, I’m out.”
All in all, I’m very obviously not a fan of Argylle. When all is said and done, it’s just a convoluted, ugly-looking, and overlong slog to sit through. Somewhere in a different universe, there’s probably a better version of this movie, one that has roughly 30 minutes removed from its bloated 2 hour and 19 minute runtime. I’m worried that we’re past Matthew Vaughn’s prime as a filmmaker and if this movie has the same energy and style of his planned future films, then all I can say is this: Yikes.
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