10 Directors Who Just Made Their Worst Movie
9. Matthew Vaughn - Argylle
Matthew Vaughn's career started off so strong, with a respectable run of five acclaimed hits - Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and Kingsman: The Secret Service.
Yet just as Vaughn cemented himself as one of the most reliable and distinctive genre filmmakers of his era, the wheels suddenly came off. Kingsman sequel The Golden Circle proved wildly divisive, and prequel The King's Man was received with even greater indifference. But the knives truly came out for Vaughn with his latest entry into the Kingsman universe, Argylle.
The film's obnoxious marketing campaign - which proudly hailed it as coming "from the twisted mind of Matthew Vaughn" - admittedly did it no favours, but the actual movie itself was a bewilderingly dull, unfunny spy romp that squandered one hell of a top-drawer cast.
This isn't the first bad movie Vaughn has made, but it is the first to be a genuine chore to sit through, and so quite predictably garnered the worst reviews of his career to date.