A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into
the agency's ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat
emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Director: Matthew
Vaughn Writers: Jane
Goldman (screenplay), Matthew
Vaughn (screenplay), 2 more credits Stars:Colin
Firth, Taron Egerton,
Samuel L. Jackson | See full cast and crew
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Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn,
Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy
organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into
the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat
emerges from a twisted tech genius. Written by
20th Century Fox
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User Reviews
It's
strange when you consider it, how much the Spy thriller genre has
changed and grown because of James Bond, there is not a single Spy movie
that is made that isn't and won't be compared to double 'O' seven
himself. So I suppose it's no surprise that a film like Kingsman had to
be made eventually, so I suppose the reel question is will this make the
Sky fall or just be a quantum of nonsense? Say what you like
about Mathew Vaughn the man likes his comics. So far out of the 5 films
he has directed, 3 were graphic novels first. Kingsman is one of them.
The man's like the anti-Zack Snyder, he directs films based off of
comics and brings out real issues in them, as opposed to Snyder who
directs films based off of graphic novels and ignores any merit or
comment on the wider world the books make and just makes HIS movies. I'm
happy to say that Kingsman is probably the most fun I will have in a
cinema screen this year. As I've already said Spy films get
compared to James Bond, so let's begin with that shall we? Kingsman is a
film that is both totally unique and its own movie whilst fully
embracing its British heritage, the films marketing campaign drew strong
comparisons to For Your Eyes Only artwork. The film acknowledges all of
those stupid spy clichés in a way which is both knowing and clever, and
then it ditches them all. The best example of this I can give is in the
opening sequence of the film, there is a glass of whisky, a lot of
people die and there isn't a drop of said whiskey spilt, and at that
moment Kingsman sticks two fingers up at the past and says "we're the
future" and from that second onwards Kingsman is its own movie. The film
successfully reinvents just about every stereotype imaginable in a spy
film. The villain, who is always central in a spy movie, is
Valentine (played by Samuel L. Jackson). Valentine is a megalomaniac who
wants world domination, all standard stuff so far, he also has a lisp
and is terrified of blood. That's the kind of thing Kingsman does really
well, it sets us up with the standard and transforms it to be unique. The
film is of course preposterous in the extreme, but I don't care. It was
funny, clever, brilliant and unique. Kingsman has so many pro's to it
that you can easily overlook the minor short comings, because in the end
the film has a baddie who has blades for legs, I mean who doesn't love
that? What I like most about Kingsman is that even with all its
madness it still manages to have some kind of heart; the entire movie is
kind of a think piece on class war and the importance of legacy. The
movie has a brain and a soul and it has no problem expressing either,
the finale to the parachute problem proves this most for me. I
would be remised if I didn't mention something about the cast, let get
over the whole "the obvious people are amazing thing" and look forward
to the new comers Taron Egerton (playing "Eggsy") and Sophie Cookson
(playing Roxy). These two talents have come from nowhere and broken
through the glass ceiling, Cookson and Egerton are stars with one film
to their names, and they deserve every single piece of praise that comes
to them. Taron is such an unbelievably versatile young man, he can be
funny, clever, cool, cocky, brash, physical, confident and insecure all
without saying a word or moving a muscle. Also, I loved seeing Jack
Davenport on screen again. Kingsman is the film this country needed; it's confident and fun, without being disrespectful or full of nasty. In short, Sic.
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