Call it my interest in a spy action or purely an attraction towards Henry Cavill, I happened to watch Matthew Vaughn’s new spy film ‘Argylle’ and well, I have a lot to talk about it, with a few spoiler alerts as a perk of watching it on the big screen!
Before watching the movie, I only had something in mind; Henry Cavill, his tall and charming personality, and that British accent playing the role of a spy, but I was astonished at how the movie was more than that.
Apple’s $200-million star-studded spy thriller centers on a detached female author who is drawn into the world of spies and espionage after she realizes that a new spy novel she is writing resembles real-world events.
Most of the movie leads the audience to believe it is one thing, when it is another, keeping the audience on a cliffhanger until the first half. Now you might be thinking if it’s a spy movie, why should you watch it the genre itself is enough to give you an idea of how the movie will turn out to be.
Here I continue with my opinion on why I was amazed by the concept of the movie as the most daring thing Vaughn does, to me, was not the rainbow tear-gas sequence-slash-dance routine, or a dramatic return of 100% deceased character or even the mega-cringe fireworks featuring Cavill. For me, it’s the female lead who did not rail thin for the role.
You read it right, Argylle involves action, and for that, a character should look pitch-perfect for the role but the fact director instead introduced a beautiful, smart, non-sample-size woman in a big-budget movie was a rare idea yet best.
My final words for Argylle is it opens the way pretty much all blockbustery secret-agent movies do: a handsome man who is on a mission to rescue and skip dangers he faces while unveiling a dark truth but the movie has so much to offer to the audience. The good part of the movie is it is screening across Pakistan in original English and with Hindi dubbed versions aswell.
