Jared Mobarak started his review by saying, “While
ARGYLLE might be the dumbest of Matthew Vaughn's films, it still remains a lot
of fun—something I cannot say for KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (I didn't even
bother with THE KING'S MAN).” The cast is nice, the music is good, and the action
goes between exciting and absurd to keep the audience engaged even if the
motives and plot are as simple as simple can be.
Because while the story is great (Jason Fuchs’ creates
a writer who writes her spy novels so well that real spies want to use her to
help them solve a mystery strangely similar to her franchise), the almost
two-and-a-half-hour runtime is mostly jokes and redundancies attempting to
trick us into thinking there’s more than meets the eye. The MacGuffin isn’t
nuclear codes or an world-threatening virus. Mobarak said, “It's just a dossier
of the bad guys because the good guys won't believe they exist without one.
(So, just make one yourself since you already know all the information it
contains?)”
Mobarak continued, “I really liked the first fight
scene with Bryce Dallas Howard's Elly constantly blinking between Henry
Cavill's Argylle dispatching villains with a calm smile and Sam Rockwell's
Wilde doing so with much less grace.” Howard and Rockwell’s bond is fun (every repetition
since they changed between friends and enemies multiple times) and the main
reason for the entire film considering the spy stuff is so one-dimensional
beyond it’s not so many turns.
The supporting cast is great too with the large roles
(the late Catherine O’Hara and Bryan Cranston) or small (John Cena and Samuel
L. Jackson), but the special effects leave a lot to be wanted. The climactic Snow
Patrol fight (Run as sung by Leona Lewis) is so funny – and not
because of the over-the-top dance choreography. Mobarak noted, “The whole thing
is shrouded in colored smoke created by awful CGI both in its visual
authenticity and ability to interact with the actors.” Thankfully an oil spill
scene proves a little better even if its ice-skating finale is straight out of
a cartoon.
And the final shot and the mid-credits scene? Mobarak
said, “Absurdly silly both in content and the intent to lazily retrofit this
movie into a completely different franchise. I cannot tell if it's meant as a
joke or truly a tease for more.”
For those who are fans of singer Dua Lipa, she is in
the beginning of the movie. I know that this movie wasn’t liked by critics, but
I enjoyed it. I think that if anyone as Apple TV should see this, especially
since we just lost Catherine O’Hara, a great actress for her time. Check it out
if you’re a fan of “The Kingsman” franchise because I think this is enjoyable,
but if not, then I understand, this film isn’t for everyone. I thought it was
one thing but then it turned to another, and maybe that’s why people didn’t
like it because they predicted what was going on early in the film.
Thank you for joining in on this review tonight. Stay
tuned next month for this year’s “Black History Movie Month.”
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