Season 1 · Episode 5 ·
Argylle
The One Where Bryce Dallas Howard Has a Cat Backpack
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 33%
- Budget
- $200 million
- Box office
- $96.2 million
Rotten Tomatoes score via Wikidata. Budget and box office via TMDB.
About the episode
This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron wrap up their “Modern Messes” series with one of the twistiest, most overcooked spy films in recent memory: Argylle (2024).
Bryce Dallas Howard stars as a cat-loving novelist, Sam Rockwell shows up as a scruffy maybe-spy, and Henry Cavill rocks a questionable hairstyle. With a cast this stacked and a budget that ballooned into the hundreds of millions, you’d think it would be a sleek spy thriller—instead, it’s a chaotic mess of twists on twists on twists.
From brainwashing music boxes to oil-tanker ice-skating fights, the guys try to unravel a story that somehow manages to out-parody itself without ever admitting it’s a parody.
So grab your velvet blazer, pour yourself a glass of Samuel L. Jackson’s finest Pinot, and join the guys as they laugh their way through one of the most ambitious, baffling, and bizarre spy flops of all time.
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About the movie
When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past. Accompanied by her cat Alfie and Aidan, a cat-allergic spy, Elly races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Conway's fictional world and her real one begins to blur.
- Director
- Matthew Vaughn
- Starring
- Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, Sofia Boutella
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Comedy
Movie details via TMDB.
