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Feb 13, 2015 · Based on the comic book from Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, "Kingsman" posits a top secret British espionage group that is inspired by King Arthur and his knights (whose names the members appropriate for their code names), based in a seemingly ordinary Savile Row tailor shop and regularly saves the world without getting into all the political ...
Feb 13, 2015 · Stylish, subversive, and above all fun, Kingsman: The Secret Service finds director Matthew Vaughn sending up the spy genre with gleeful abandon. Read Critics Reviews
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Feb 13, 2015 · A brisk origin story that benefits from its globe-threatening, cartoonish villain, Kingsman is an absolute blast right up to the (moment when the Swedish princess offers up her) end.
Dec 27, 2014 · For those who think James Bond has gotten a little too serious in his old age, “ Kingsman: The Secret Service ” brings the irreverence back to the British spy genre, offering a younger,...
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By Scott Collura
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, ...
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE is very much a kindred spirit to KICK-ASS, doing for the spy genre what KICK-ASS did for comic books. It's a light and breezy affair, a film which never takes itself too seriously, involving British spies battling a megalomaniac bent on world domination.
Feb 12, 2015 · The truly shocking movie opening this weekend is Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, a hyper-violent live-action cartoon about a dapper British intelligence agency stopping Samuel...
