🔴Every Plot Twist In Argylle, Ranked By Shock Factor🔴
0Every Plot Twist In Argylle, Ranked By Shock Factor
Matthew Vaughn's spy comedy Argylle is loaded with major plot twists. Despite featuring a star-studded ensemble cast led by Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Catherine O'Hara, John Cena, Dua Lipa, and Henry Cavill, Argylle was a box office flop upon its release in early February 2024. Argylle only made $96 million worldwide against its staggering $200 million budget, quickly becoming one of the biggest box office failures of the year. Argylle's poor reviews likely contributed to its poor box office performance.
Argylle has several headscratcher moments and plot holes that make it difficult to fully comprehend its serpentine narrative. Although Vaughn has indicated that he plans to expand on the original film's concept with several Argylle prequels, sequels, and crossovers, the poor box office performance and critical reception of the film may prevent him from doing so. Argylle is one of a few recent Apple original films that have had lackluster box-office performances such as Napoleon and Killers of the Flower Moon. Argylle is now available to stream on
One of the earliest twists in Argylle is that Aidan Wilde, an apparent stranger and fan of Elly Conway, is actually a real-life spy. Through Aidan, the audience and Elly are pulled into the world of Elly's supposedly fictional stories as they play out in reality. Elly discovers that she is in the middle of a conflict between the CIA and a rogue organization simply known as The Division. Aidan, who is later revealed to have a history at the CIA with Elly's true identity, demonstrates his espionage skills by saving Elly from Division henchmen on a speeding train.
Another mind-bending twist in Argylle is when the human Alfie, a former CIA director played by Samuel L. Jackson, tells Elly that her books aren't predicting the future as it happens in real-time but rather are drawn from her memories of her past life as Agent Rachel Kylle. When Elly meets with Alfie in southern France and learns of her past as a CIA operative, she slowly starts to remember who she had been, especially after a hand-to-hand fight with Adian that snaps her muscle memory back into the mind of Agent R. Kylle