Matthew Vaughn is a director who has shown us how he unpacks the spy genre over his filmography. What makes Argylle stand out is focusing the story on Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard), a woman who writes spy novels but is not a spy herself. Having that female perspective makes all the difference.
Set in a world split between the characters that Elly has created in her novels and a real spy story she falls into, Argylle keeps you engaged in its over-2-hour runtime by continuing to tell both sides of the story. Agent Argylle (Henry Cavill) might be a male model-looking spy who has the qualities of James Bond, with a sidekick who is all the muscle named Wyatt (John Cena), but Elly finds herself with a spy named Aidan (Sam Rockwell), who’s not nearly as suave or skilled as Argylle. Her real-life spy mission is a mess of Elly not wanting to be involved and Aidan showing her what it actually means to be in espionage.
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