What Is Argylle?
- Lukas Kendall
- Feb 4, 2024
- 1 min read
Checking Deadline this morning, I saw news that a movie I had barely heard of, Argylle (which I now know how to spell) was a box-office bomb. It’s some kind of overwrought spy spoof. Now that I think of it, I dimly remember hearing of its casting.
Neither audiences nor critics liked it. It was a $200M production Matthew Vaughn sold to Apple, meaning he is, as the great Liberace put it, crying all the way to the bank.
It seems to be a classic case of how giant bombs are made: somebody with a track record of hits sells something stupid solely on his track record. The executives who enabled it have an excuse: “But it’s Matthew Vaughn.”
It must be great to have a track record of hits!
How can anyone who's been to a movie theater in the last five months not have known this was coming out? They stuck the trailer for this thing in front of EVERYTHING (even The Zone Of Interest...!).
Well it's another one of those bombs with a great score by Lorne Balfe didn't see the movie but listened to it on Apple music
When I first about it, Cavill doing another spy film, I thought I might dip a toe in it. Then I saw the trailer-hard pass!