Spy movies are governed as if following a schematic axis: if they are spies, there will be a counterspy, someone who also plays for the side of the others, recurrently, “the bad guys.” It happens in the Mission Impossibleand happens in those of Bourne.
In the last directorial work of the British Matthew Vaughn (he made the trilogy of Kingsman) and is Claudia Schiffer’s husband) there are spies and a writer of spy novels. Eli Conway (Bruce Dallas Howard, from another trilogy, the Jurassic World) is presenting the fourth book about Argylle, a spy who can do anything – everything -.
If not, let’s review the beginning of the film with a multi-star cast. Henry Cavill arrives at a party and prepares to dance with a blonde (Dua Lipa), who turns out to be a terrorist who discovers that Argylle is a secret agent. Well, don’t ask how, but Argylle manages to escape despite being surrounded by dozens of guys with machine guns.
Henry Cavill is how Eli imagines Argylle. But blocked without knowing how to continue her fifth book, and faced with criticism from her mother (Catherine O’Hara, the one who 34 years ago left her son Kevin forgotten in My poor angel) decides to go visit her by train (he doesn’t like planes). And on the train, dozens of assassins try to end her life, but she is saved by the spy Willis (Sam Rockwell), whom Eli sees in the middle of a fight with Argylle’s face.
Thus, the daily life of the spy novel author who lives with a cat called Alfie, whom she always carries in her backpack, changes dramatically. Because? Because it seems that the plots of her books are too similar to reality, telling that a spy organization is about to be discovered.
Mix of humor and action
Matthew Vaughn, the director of Kick-Ass and as we said the movies Kingsman (Sofia Boutella, who appears in this film, wasn’t Gazelle in Kingsman, the first in the saga?) once again mixes, or mixes, humor and action, although here the stunt scenes are incredible.
Bryce Dallas Howard is the writer of spy novels, and Sam Rockwell, a real spy. The script of For Argyby Jason Fuchs (he wrote the Wonder Womanthe first one, not the mess that is the sequel, and which also has a small role in this film) has as many turns as a labyrinth.
This is how the number of characters that are added to Howard and Rockwell, who demonstrate that they have what is usually called good chemistry, is important, and those already mentioned will have to be added to Bryan Cranston, John Cena, and Samuel L. Jackson. We are not going to reveal who they play, because this is a spy movie…
Dua Lipa dancing with Henry Cavill. You don’t have to be late to the movies, or get up during the credits, because things happen…And it is a long film (almost two hours and twenty minutes) and includes a post-credit scene that you absolutely have to stay to see.
“Argylle: Secret Agent”
Action/Suspense. United Kingdom/United States, 2024. Original title: “For Argy”. Of: Matthew Vaughn. Con: Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Henry Cavill, Dua Lipa, Bryan Cranston, John Cena, Samuel L. Jackson. Salas: IMAX, Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Dot, Cinépolis Recoleta, Houssay y Pilar, Showcase Belgrano.