Argylle among 'worst movies ever made' as bad reviews are in for £158m spy flick
Hollywood's latest entry starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, and Samuel L. Jackson has been branded one of the "worst movies of all time".
Matthew Vaughn's new flick Argylle cost Apple Original Films a staggering $200,000,000 (£158,000,000) to make, but it doesn't appear to have gone down well with critics. Verdicts were released on Wednesday, with one calling it "chaotically stupid action".
Other stars appearing in the spy action-comedy film include John Cena, Bryan Cranston, Sam Rockwell and Ariana DeBose. Argylle follows the story of Elly Conway (played by Bryce), who is an introverted spy novelist. She is drawn into the real world of espionage when the storyline of her books "gets a little too close to the activities of a sinister underground syndicate." Undercover spy Aiden (played by Sam) soon shows up to save her which leads to Elly and her cat Alfie being dropped into a secret world.
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It's based on a recently published book of the same name (Universal Pictures/Apple Original Films/Marv/Peter Mountain. All Rights Reserved)Based on a recently published book of the same name, critics are saying the strange film will end up "torturing audiences". It holds a measly 37 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Katie Walsh from Tribune News Service calling the brand-new film "one of the most expensive worst movies ever made".
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"A talented cast trapped in an endless story with a fake cat," Matt Singer from ScreenCrush admitted. Nick Schager of The Daily Beast quipped, "It's comic touch almost as heavy-handed as its slow-motion-drenched action is dull, it seems primarily designed to answer the question, how many movie stars can one fiasco squander?"
"Argylle is a bad movie. A very, very bad movie," penned David Fear from Rolling Stone. Carla Hay from Culture Mix said the film was an "incoherent, bloated mess filled with stupid plot twists, awful dialogue, and a gimmicky cat that looks fake for most of the movie". They added: "Henry Cavill is not the main star. Argylle is mostly Sam Rockwell acting smug and Bryce Dallas Howard acting terrified."
The Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin added: "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." The Guardian said Bryce's role was "awful".
It stars several well-known faces in Hollywood (Universal Pictures/Apple Original Films/Marv/Peter Mountain. All Rights Reserved)Writer Peter Bradshaw added: "Through some terrible directing anti-alchemy, he has elicited an awful lead performance here from Bryce Dallas Howard as spy novelist Elly Conway, whose creations uncannily mirror real life. She looks waxy, inert and uncomfortable; it’s as if she is wearing cut-glass contact lenses, with a torpid, unfocused quality which the script’s big twist does not explain or excuse."
Vanity Fair actually praised Bryce's performance, with Richard Lawson saying: "Howard tries her best to keep things lively, but she’s hampered by dull characterization. Argylle strains desperately hard to be kicky and twisty and raucous but mostly feels like a chore, a slog through painful gags and canned charisma."
The Times seemingly didn't enjoy the film either, with Kevin Maher writing: "It's a testament to the low-grade lethargy that informs so much of the writing here that his character template never evolved further than 'Henry Cavill + wacky haircut = hilarity'."
"Everywhere you look, there are details that need to be added, plot holes that need to be filled, and jokes that need to be improved," Nicholas Barber from the BBC added. Despite the bad reviews, Dua says she had a great time making the flick, telling Yahoo: "Argylle was the first thing that I ever did... loved the experience. It was terrifying and exciting and everything all at once."
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