Argylle

"Argylle is a bad movie. A very, very bad movie."

"An unbearably smug caper."

"Pleasingly, surprisingly charming."

"Woefully crummy."

"So aggressively stupid it will make you defect."

"Consistently clever, frequently funny and highly entertaining."

"Vaughn's lazy nonsense is a new low."

"Everywhere you look, there are details that need to be added, plot holes that need to be filled, and jokes that need to be improved."

"Jokes that struggle to land... and Apple product placement so aggressive it feels like a kind of assault."

"Sputters as it attempts to reengineer the mechanics of better films."

"Overstuffed and exhausting."

"It’s all mindless fun -- although, at two-and-a-half hours plus, it does overestimate its entertainment value."

"More exhausting than interesting."

"Fuchs upends the narrative so many times it becomes a kind of unpleasant mania."

"The whole plodding, cartoonish mess lands with a thud."

"Inventively twisty if a little convoluted, with the modest disclaimer that it’s not as good as the trailer makes it look."

"Starts with a concept that’s unbelievable but enjoyably so, then proceeds to become more brain-crampingly preposterous as it goes."

"Delivers twisty-turny tedium, but its action scenes are great."

"With enough plot twists to make a daytime soap blush, Argylle shows just how little that can add up to."

"I spy utter mediocrity."

"A single idea pursued at relentless pace and extravagant expense."

"Deserves a big fat hiss — and zero stars."

"A simulacrum of a spy movie offers few pleasures and plenty of headaches."

"Mostly bad CGI, action sequences that go by so fast you wonder what Vaughn is trying to hide, and a lot of strange tangents."