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Is Argylle Worth Your While?
Critics are largely unimpressed with Matthew Vaughn’s latest spy movie.
Many critics took issue with the plot and runtime, delivering some serious burns in the process: the Washington Post ’s Ty Burr compared the viewing experience to a headache, while Rolling Stone ’s David Fear questioned whether “such a colossal waste of talent and precious time” should be legal. 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. “As the film works its way up to a big, showy climax, full of colored smoke and choreography that’s half-dance, half-fighting, like capoeira in formal dress, it all starts to feel like one of those very expensive, very elaborate commercials for a pseudo-luxury product you don’t want to buy — a perfume perhaps, or some car.
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