History Film / Argylle

* HomageShot: The shot of the Division {{mooks}} standing outside the armory waiting for Elly and Aiden to come out of it and getting smoke bombs thrown at them by the two heroes is staged the very same way as Richmond Valentine's mooks doing the same against Eggsy in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. Moreover, the bright colors of the smoke bombs recalls the bright colored explosions of heads in the same film.

'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTbSAkMi-jo Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mgu9mNZ8Hk? Trailer]]

'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTbSAkMi-jo Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mgu9mNZ8Hk?Trailer]]

* ShoePhone: The first enemy spy who comes from Elly passes as a fan of her books and has a shiv springing out of a pen. He's quickly neutralized by Aiden.

* RuleOfCool: Pretty much the only reason [[spoiler:Rachel can ice skate on a floor covered in crude oil by stabbing knives into her boots, tackle several much larger mercenaries without losing any momentum, and then shoot all the survivors without the hot shell casings igniting the oil covered floor]]. Absolutely none of it would work in real life but it looks ''awesome''.

* SlipperySkid: A gunfight in a pumping station results in an oil slick covering the entire floor, ensuring that nobody on either side has good footing. [[spoiler:Elly attaches knives to her boots and somehow manages to "ice" skate on the crude oil, allowing her to keep fighting while everyone else can barely walk.]]

* NoEscapeButDown: After findong Bakunin's notebook, Aiden and Elly have no choice but to escape by jumping from the roof of the building onto a barge. To demonstrate the safety of the jump, Aiden throws [[ThatPoorCat poor Alfie]] first.

* OneManArmy: Both Aiden and [[spoiler:Rachel Kylle]] are shown to be more than capable of singlehandedly carving their way through dozens of enemies.

Elly Conway (Howard) is the reclusive (preferring the company of her cat Alfie) and mild-mannered author of the wildly popular ''Argylle'' series of spy novels, about a [[TuxedoAndMartini dashing super-spy]] named Agent Argylle (Cavill). When the events in her novels start coming true, Elly has to go on the run with the help of real-life spy Aiden Wilde (Rockwell), while a rogue spy organisation led by Director Ritter (Cranston) is determined to figure out what else Elly knows.

* HomageShot: The shot of the Division {{mooks}} standing outside the armory waiting for Elly and Aiden to come out of it and getting smoke bombs thrown at them by the two heries is staged the very same way as Richmond Valentine's mooks doing the same against Eggsy in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. Moreover, the bright colors of the smoke bombs recalls the bright colored explosions of heads in the same film.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Ruth activates Elly’s brainwashing trigger and forces her to fight Aiden, he tries to get through to her and eventually refuses to fight back altogether.]]

* LighterAndSofter: As a TuxedoAndMartini film by Matthew Vaughn, there's less blood, gore, sex talk and swearing than in his ''Film/{{Kingsman}}'' films (to the point it's rated PG-13 instead of R).

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Creator/ArianaDeBose (Keira) performed in two songs of the soundtrack, a duet with Boy George in "Electric Energy" and solo in "Get Up And Start Again".

* ShowWithinAShow: The film is about the ''Argylle'' novels, which inexplicably parallel real secret government operations, which draws the attention of real spies. The protagonist Elly is the novels' author, and the film features a few sequences which are scenes from the books (in context, either because Elly is writing them, making a public reading or hallucinating).

* MetaTwist: [[spoiler:Henry Cavill having top-billing on the posters, and the movie being named after his character implies that, somehow, Agent Argylle is a real person. He isn't: the actual plot twist is that Argylle is an unconscious expy of Elly prior her amnesia and brainwashing. His name is in the title because ''the in-universe novels named after him'' are closely tied to the film's plot and the big reveal.]]
* MistakenForJunkie: As Elly describes what she just lived with Aiden to her mother, her mom asks if she's been experimenting with drugs.
* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Elly [[spoiler:has just revealed to Ritter that she is actually against the Division and has just sent Alfie everything he needs to bring them down... and then it turns out that the Division have added security protocols that prevent Elly sending everything to Alfie as she intended, so she's just exposed her true agenda in the heart of enemy territory]].

* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Elly overhears Aiden state that "Elly Conway needs a bullet to the head" and assumes the worst. [[spoiler:He actually means he hates her fake personality as he was in love with her original self, Rachel Kylle]].

* RuleOfCool: Pretty much the only reason [[spoiler:Elly can ice skate on a floor covered in crude oil by stabbing knives into her boots, tackle several much larger mercenaries without losing any momentum, and then shoot all the survivors without the hot shell casings igniting the oil covered floor]]. Absolutely none of it would work in real life but it looks ''awesome''.
* SarcasticConfession: Aiden admits to being a spy when he first meets Elly, something she naturally doesn't believe.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Ritter offers one [[spoiler:to Elly near the end, offering to give her back her cat if he helps her find Alfie the human. She tells him to do whatever he wants with the cat, insisting she hates them, which convinces Ritter that she really is back to being Rachel]].

* ShoutOut: Self-referential for Matthew Vaughn. During their visit to Hyde Park, Ellie and Aiden are seen with a can of [[Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle "Statesman"]] brand beer. [[spoiler:TheStinger takes place in a pub named "Film/TheKingsMan", complete with the Film/{{Kingsman}} symbol.]]

* SlipperySkid: A gunfight in a pumping station results in an oil slick covering the entire floor, ensuring that nobody on either side has good footing. [[spoiler:Elly attaches knives to her boots and somehow manages to ice skate on the crude oil, allowing her to keep fighting while everyone else can barely walk.]]

* MistakenForJunkie: As Elly describes what she just lived with Aiden to her mother over the phone, her mom asks if she's been experimenting with drugs.
** In the film proper, she asks it to her face.

* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: Attempted. When [[spoiler:Vogler]] pours Aiden and Elly some tea in Arabia, he notably swaps cups with her then insists she drink first. Unfortunately, all three cups are drugged.

* ShoutOut: Self-referential for Matthew Vaughn. During their visit to Hyde Park, Ellie and Aiden are seen with a can of [[Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle "Statesman"]] brand beer. TheStinger takes place in a pub named "Film/TheKingsMan", complete with the Film/{{Kingsman}} symbol.

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* HollywoodDensity: Argylle pays for information on the Master File with three gold bars in a suit case, which would weigh ninety kilograms (or just under two hundred pounds) but apparently carried it to his information with no problem.

** Ruth is remarkably upset that Elly ended her last book on a {{Cliffhanger}}, calling it a cop out and trying to insist she write just one more chapter to reveal if Argylle actually got the master file he was after. [[spoiler:She works for the Division, which the Directorate is based on, and is wants to know where the master file is]].

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Ritter offers one to [[spoiler:Elly)) near the end, offering to give her back her cat if he helps her find Alfie the human. [[spoiler:She tells him to do whatever he wants with the cat, insisting she hates them, which convinces Ritter that she really is back to being Rachel]].

* AcousticLicense: [[spoiler:Elly only functions as a ManchurianCandidate so long as she hears a specific music box playing]]. Given they were on top of the deck of an oil tanker in the middle of the ocean, the wind that would be present pretty much guarantees there's no way anyone would be able to hear it at any distance.