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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5310455, member: 44"] Argyle (2024) Yet another reluctant heroine in an adventure movie. I feel like every few years someone blows the dust off the script for Romancing the Stone, and does a loosely based rewrite of it in the hopes that lightning will strike twice. Most recently we saw it in Sandra Bullock's The Lost City. That was fairly "meh" and formulaic, but at least vaguely entertaining. This version has Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell in the Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas roles. Both are adequate, but barely so. The supporting cast is impressive, including Henry Cavill, John Cena, Bryan Cranston (who is completely wasted and seems to be phoning in his performance), Catherine O'Hara, Dua Lipa (who's actually fairly good in a tiny role), Sophia Boutella (who is also wasted and seems to be phoning it in) and, of course, Samuel L. Jackson, because apparently it is necessary for him to appear in every movie made since the year 2000. The plot is exactly what you expected to be. Reluctant novelist with a phobia gets drawn into a drama that closely parrots the novels she writes. Sound like an exact rip off of Romancing the Stone? No, they're completely different movies, because in Romancing the Stone the phobia was fear of going outside, but in this movie, the fear is fear of flying. Completely different movies, and definitely not thinly veiled plagiarism! Other than that, it's spot on, well, at least until the "twist" in the end. Once that twist is added, the movie goes completely off the rails and becomes barely watchable. Basically, this is a vanity piece for Bryce Dallas, Howard to pretend to be an action star. Other than a mildly entertaining Bond like initial action sequence, it isn't worth watching. [/QUOTE]

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