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“Argylle was not a ‘good’ film, but it’s inventive and amusing. It’s basically a big spy parody, with a pretty decent twist in the middle that I didn’t see coming. But it’s way, way too long, at two-and-a-half hours. Also, it absolutely bombed at the box office. Made less than $100 million when it…”
“Chief of Station was a bit of a miss. It’s well-filmed, on-location in Budapest, and even has a bit part for a former Bond girl (Olga Kurylenko was Camilla Montes in Quantum of Solace ). It opens with a nice scene of tradecraft, which makes up for a particularly uncomfortable torture scene later on…”
“Haywire is fully 15 years old, back when Gina Carano was known only for MMA , hadn’t done Star Wars, and hadn’t made the tweets that got her canceled. It’s not a bad movie at all. It’s directed by Steven Soderberg, and it shows. It’s very moody, very stylized. And the soundtrack is by the same guy…”
“Jack Ryan, Ghost Wars was very ‘paint-by-numbers.’ I enjoy John Krasinski in the role, but there was nothing in this film that was interesting. Even the action sequences were tired. I liked the prior series format, because a plot could develop over eight full hours of story. This is only about 90…”
“Letterboxd has published its Top 100 Spy Films . It’s a pretty good list. Happy to see two of Daniel Craig’s Bond films quite high (before any Connery film, notably), along with Rogue One (if it included TV, then Andor would no-doubt be up there too). Thunderbolts seems like a really odd choice,…”