’Argylle’ would probably be a better movie if it was shorter

Elly Conway is a successful novelist who finds the ending to her latest novel about a super-spy not to her satisfaction. On a whim, she decides to take a train trip to visit her mother and find some inspiration along the way. Instead, she stumbles onto a vast conspiracy, a real-life super-spy , and the fact that her novels are more real than she realises...

Matthew Vaughan's work as a director is an acquired taste. Even though his directorial career began with the somewhat promising 'Layer Cake' featuring a pre-Bond, it seems like Vaughan has found a furrow and is intent on ploughing it for all it's worth. Ten years after 'Kingsman', the director-producer is still running the same formula of visual gags and dance-choreographed action setpieces and with the same mixture of spy-fi comedy antics blended through it all.

There's a great cast assembled for this, however. Sam Rockwell is always a great choice in a comedy, be it as the hapless security officer in 'Galaxy Quest' or something like 'See How They Run'. Equally, pairing him up with Bryce Dallas Howard as the hapless novelist caught in the spy world brings back memories of 'Romancing The Stone'. For her part, Howard does her best in the confines of a poor script, but it's always pushing up against it.

That's the problem with 'Argylle', when you come right down to it. Even with an extended cameo by Dua Lipa, the whole mystery surrounding the, and Henry Cavill's ridiculous flat-top hairstyle, there's nothing terribly interesting in 'Argylle' outside of these. It's the same gags, the same tricks, the same bells and whistles deployed by Matthew Vaughan again and again over a period of time that does nothing but highlight the sameness of it all.

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