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Argylle Delivers Twisty-Turny Tedium, But Its Action Scenes Are Great
Matthew Vaughn might not be able to tell a story, but he can choreograph some wild mayhem.
Aidan might be scrawnier and rougher around the edges than the suave Argylle, but as Elly watches him acrobatically fight off any number of shrieking, knife-wielding killers, she imagines him turning into her fictional superagent and back again — a fun visual gag involving Rockwell constantly shape-shifting into Cavill. In keeping with the ludicrous tone of the film, he delivers deliriously violent scenes that break free of the boilerplate badassery we usually associate with this type of thing — from an oil-spill-skating bayonet-a-thon to a brightly colored, slow-motion smoke-grenade dance-off with gun-toting pirouettes, high-birds, hip-flips, and around-the-worlds. Here, despite all the frantic plot points (and the steady stream of cameos from actors who surely got paid well for what appears to have been one day’s worth of work, from Richard E. Grant to Samuel L. Jackson to Sofia Boutella), the story is too thin for us to care all that much.
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