Argylle (2024)

[Morrigan2575]

Looks fun.

 

 

[Spartan Girl]

Why are people getting so hung up about Henry’s hairdo in the trailer? Maybe it doesn’t bother me because I’m too distracted by his general hotness to care lol.

[Morrigan2575]

3 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

Why are people getting so hung up about Henry’s hairdo in the trailer? Maybe it doesn’t bother me because I’m too distracted by his general hotness to care lol.

I didn't realize people were getting hung up. I thought it was because the Henry as Argylle we've seen is from the Book/Fantasy storyline.  I always figured that real Henry/Argylle would look different or if real Argylle was another actor altogether 

Edited October 4, 2023 by Morrigan2575

[chitowngirl]

Reclusive author Elly Conway writes best-selling espionage novels about a secret agent named Argylle who's on a mission to unravel a global spy syndicate. However, when the plots of her books start to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, the line between fiction and reality begin to blur.

 

Cast

Henry Cavill as Argylle

Bryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway

Sam Rockwell as Aidan

Bryan Cranston as Ritter

Catherine O'Hara as Ruth, Elly's mother

Dua Lipa as LaGrange

Ariana DeBose as Keira

John Cena as Wyatt

Samuel L. Jackson as Alfred Solomon

Sofia Boutella as Saba Al-Badr

Rob Delaney

Jing Lusi

Richard E. Grant as Fowler

Chip as Alfie, Elly's cat

[AngieBee1]

 I have a low tolerance for zany and it's the reason why I didn't like KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE and why I really dislike ARGYLLE.

What ARGYLLE has going for it is Sam Rockwell and Dallas Bryce Howard who excel despite Matthew Vaughn's unrestraint. 

Everything else is diminishing returns.  However, wouldn't mind if what they set up in the mid end credits pan out to something more. I'd watch that.

[Hanahope]

Howard was fine as the author but didn’t buy her as a spy at all.  When it looked like she was doing the Kathleen Turner role of Romancing the Stone, ok, but full blown real spy, nope.   I was fine with everyone else.  
 

the story was fine, good even, but it needed serious editing to be tighter .  Some of the action sequences were too long and “ice skating” on oil was ridiculous.  

[Spartan Girl]

The kitty was cute.

And they can put Henry Cavill in whatever bad wig exists, he’ll still be hot as hell.

[SomeTameGazelle]

19 hours ago, Hanahope said:

Some of the action sequences were too long and “ice skating” on oil was ridiculous.  

Somewhere toward the end I started to wonder whether the story had jumped back into fiction again. 

I enjoyed the cast and decided to accept the exaggerated tone as it was intended. The visual of Alfie the cat was cute but it was more stress than it was worth to see him hauled around through so many action sequences. 

 

19 hours ago, Hanahope said:

Howard was fine as the author but didn’t buy her as a spy at all.  When it looked like she was doing the Kathleen Turner role of Romancing the Stone, ok, but full blown real spy, nope.

There was the one scene where she was with the Keeper of Secrets but other than that she was mostly plucky rather than badass. 

[AnimeMania]

Apple TV+ has a free weekend so I finally get to see Argylle and a few other Apple shows.

Was or was not the place where the agent shot the hacker the same place they went to 5 years later? If so, the place looked pretty good for being completely exploded. Possibly a logic error.

When fighting the hypnotized agent, I would have clapped both her ears so that she couldn't hear the music box, the not being able to hear effect, should have lasted long enough to break the hypnosis without doing any permanent damage.