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Feb 13, 2015 · Advertisement. "Kingsman: The Secret Service" is not without its compensations. While Egerton is fairly anonymous as the callow would-be Kingsman, Firth, Caine and Strong are clearly having fun with their parts and it is amusing to see Firth dressed to look like Harry Palmer, the rival Sixties-era British spy once played by Caine.
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Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 30, 2024. Although there's nothing much to take away from the film, Kingsman: The Secret Service is a highly entertaining film with fascinating characters ...
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Posted: Jan 30, 2015 8:14 pm
In Kingsman: The Secret Service, director Matthew Vaughn once again proves that he excels in taking well-established -- one might even say tired -- genres and tropes and reenergizing them with his patented blend of wit, reverence for what has come before, and hyper-violence.
Adapted from the comic series by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, Kingsman is a paean to the super-spy movie, but with a specific eye towards modernizing the gadget-crazed, Very British variation on the kind. Yes, bulletproof umbrellas and watches that shoot amnesia darts are back in vogue thanks to Vaughn and co-scripter Jane Goldman, and you’ll love them for it. Of course, who can be surprised that the director -- the guy who sent the X-Men to the Mod 1960s in First Class -- would fixate on the stylings of the James Bond archetype? In Kingsman, it’s the suit that makes the agent as much as anything else.
Not that it’s all about the visuals or a throwback sensibility. No, Kingsman is also very modern, featuring a Steve Jobs/Russell Simmons-esque amalgam of a villain named Valentine (realized by a lispy and frequently funny Samuel L. Jackson) and his bid to use 21st century technology to right the world’s problems… no matter the cost. Yes, he’s the kind of baddie who utilizes underground lairs and lethal, lovely sidekicks (Sofia Boutella’s razor-sharp prosthetic legs are to die for), but he also has the ear of the most powerful world leaders. (The portrayal of one real-life ringer in particular here might even offend some more sensitive American voters. That’s what we get for making The Interview, I guess.)
The only thing standing in Valentine’s way is the British spy group of the title. Colin Firth is the veteran agent (Harry Hart, codenamed Galahad), a smooth but deadly operator who must simultaneously contend with Valentine’s plot while also helping to train “Eggsy” Unwin (played by newcomer Taron Egerton), the son of a long-ago fallen comrade who he’s handpicked to join the Secret Service.
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a spy movie made by James Bond devotees who know the genre so well that they can have a good time with it while also paying it respect -- and taking it to someplace new entirely. The secret is out: Kingsman is pretty great. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Talk to Senior Editor Scott Collura on Twitter at @ScottIGN, ...
Feb 13, 2015 · Kingsman: The Secret Service - Metacritic. 2015. R. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. 2 h 9 m. Summary A veteran spy (Colin Firth) of a super-secret organization recruits an unrefined but promising street kid (Taron Egerton) into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
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Dec 27, 2014 · Though “Kingsman: The Secret Service” doesn’t open for several more weeks, the ill-considered church massacre remained in the not-quite-finished version screened for review — precisely the ...
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7/10. Funny Entertainment. claudio_carvalho 21 June 2015. The agent Harry "Galahad" Hart (Colin Firth) from the Kingsman Secret Service helps the troublemaker Gary "Eggsy" Unwin (Taron Egerton), who is the son of an agent that saved the lives of Harry and his team sacrificing himself seventeen years ago.
