Summary
A best selling novelist, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, finds herself at the centre of a spy mystery.
I like Matthew Vaughn, his style, even his second Kingsman film, but I didn’t like this.
I had two major issues with the film. Firstly, I thought it felt tame, the violence was bloodless and secondly I thought the twist was incredibly obvious. I think for me the worst moment of the film was the big final battle at the end when rather than having a bloody shootout which is what you want out of an action film you have instead bright colours and smoke and they are dancing and shooting and you just go who is this for? Meanwhile the twist that Bryce Dallas Howard is in fact agent Argyll was so on the nose that you could have guessed it blind without having ever seen the trailer.
My pros of the film come with the fact that the cast is good and likeable and you do like the characters even if the story itself is played out and repetitive. I think Bryce Dallas Howard did a good job leading the film and that Sam Rockwell and Henry Cavill where good in their supporting roles.
Overall, this film deeply misunderstood its audience its all very well doing a spy spoof film but people still want to see bloody gory violence and not a colourful dance number.
2.5/5
Pros.
Howard
The wider supporting cast
It is very watchable
Cons.
The mystery is obvious
It has been done better before
It feels incredibly tame
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Another Millennial Reviewer 
I’ve read mostly bad things about this movie but honestly, I’ll watch pretty much anything with Sam Rockwell in it. 😛
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