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Ian Fleming's other spy.
Total count of the movie world wide is on this moment $37,343,215.
Universal should be happy now that NTTD and Oppenheimer did a lot more then expect, because it turn out Argylle not have good first weak overall. Whyle promotion is not that much as those two other movies.
It also turn out movie is promoted to much as Henry Cavill movie whyle he only have 7 minutes of screentime and movie with 139 minutes is to long.
Sad to read that you didn't like it at all. I planned to watch this one in cinema but changed my mind after the disappointing reviews, especially when they also point out that there is too much CGI and it is said that the CGI is bad. And when a Bondfan like you says it is awful...well that's definitely an alarming sign for me.
I liked Layer Cake, had a great time with Stardust and I absolutely love Kickass and the first Kingsman.
Sadly, Vaughn doesn't find back to strength so far and increases the CGI instead.
Thank you! I "get" the approach they were going for but it was a huge misfire in 2024 and none of the visuals or CGI or cinematography, any of it, felt like it was anything but bottom of the barrel. I fiercely disliked this one but did go into it with semi-hopeful expectations that it'd deliver in some form or fashion.
Thankfully, it rarely happens, but I legitimately don't have one good thing to say about it from start to finish. It's almost impressive in a way. It seemed almost exclusively created for the purpose of a "big twist" that was anything but. Contrived nonsense.
Like I mentioned elsewhere, I didn't have to pay to see it and still felt like I wanted my money back. You should absolutely check it out for the price of free in the near future. Given its box office returns, I imagine it'll be available online/streaming sooner rather than later.
Yep, that's what I'm thinking. Argylle will be on a streaming service soon enough!
It was very similar to the Harley Quinn scene in James Gunn's Suicide Squad except that was done better.lol
I didn't see that one. I saw the one directed by Ayer and that was more than enough for me.
Gunn's SS is better, though it does have a lot of mean spirited humor with quite a few crazy scenes,
Well I'm all for mean-spirited humor, that's some of the best!
I'll preface my comments by saying that I typically like Matthew Vaughan’s films though his second Kingsman film was a misfire for me. This one worked better as over the top, sometimes utterly goofy fun that borders on spoof at times. Indeed, Vaughan never directing a Daniel Craig Bond film seems down to his tastes being more Moore than Dalton or Craig. And as a writer and cat person, the opening chunk of the film with Bryce Dallas Howard dealing with both was both fun and surprisingly close to life at moments!
Was it perfect? Nope. For something that Vaughan claimed would be a genre changer, Argylle is really an extension of Kingsman. Something that, incidentally,
It’s a brain candy spy film, clearly, but one that seems to have aspirations in places of doing something more. Which would be fine except, as a writer at least watching it, it telegraphs its big twist and had been doing so in the recent trailers for anyone watching out. Which is a shame because there’s a lot of fun here and I really enjoyed both Bryce Dallas Howard and Henry Cavill especially in this.
It's also frustrating because of how it was originally announced, with Vaughan invoking the likes of le Carre and Forsyth (who get namechecked in the film). Except he delivered some that was the polar opposite of their work. Something which, in turn, led to the marketing (and a tie-in novel) pulling bait and switch shenanigans over the last couple of years. Something that has been reflected in the marmite reactions to the film I've seen.
Indeed, my biggest takeaways are that it’s a shame Cavill won’t ever be Bond and we need more spy movies with cats. Oh and Lorne Balfe is my next choice for Bond composer based on his score here (minus Vaughan’s unusually off song choices) and his earlier work on Gemini Man.
I know almost nothing about the property and its lore but Cavill's fanboy excitement for it is pretty contagious.
Cheers @Creasy47. I was on the fence about seeing it because I didn’t think the trailers looked very good, and then the reviews came out. I was still considering it, because the last couple of Kingsman films didn’t get good reviews either, and I liked those. But your comments have sealed it for me, I’ll wait for it to hit streaming.
"In a mid-credits scene, a young Argylle is revealed to be a Kingsman agent, with the first novel being based on his life."
By that logic, Roger Moore would never have been cast. Cavill is the new Moore I reckon. (Let’s be honest, historically, every Bond from Moore onwards was someone who got/almost got the part, then waited til the next time — right up until Craig.)