ARGYLLE – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

I startled myself awake the morning after my screening of action (alleged) comedy Argylle the evening before with the shocking realization that nothing in the trailer — which has been ubiquitous and inescapable at cinemas for months now — is actually in the damn movie.

Or is it? Maybe some of it is? The movie itself had already faded from memory, mere hours later, it’s that blah, though it’s frantic not to be taken as so. But the trailer is, alas, more seared into my brain than the movie it wanted to sell me, to the point that less than half a day later, I wasn’t quite able to separate the two. It’s like how you can’t be quite sure whether you genuinely remember something from your early childhood or if you’re just recalling people talking about it. Continue reading…