Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman: The Secret Service
A super-secret organization recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. A phenomenal cast, including ACADEMY AWARD® Winners Colin Firth and Michael Caine and OSCAR® Nominee Samuel L. Jackson, leads this action-packed spy-thriller directed by Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class).
匚卂尺ㄥ reviewedJanuary 29, 2025
👑I loved Kick-Ass, and here Matthew Vaughn does it again. Kingsman is funny, action-packed and doesn't take itself seriously at all. Colin Firth is loaded with guilt at the death of a trainee spy, and when dead man's son grows up and gets into trouble, it's down to Colin to take him under his wing and train him in the secret arts, while saving the world at the same time (and what a reward our young whippersnapper is offered for doing this-you'll just have to watch it to see that one!). Samuel L Jackson plays the bad guy with a speech impediment, Michael Caine is the good guy (sort of), and even though it completely sends up the whole genre, it kinda makes you want to wear a suit, bow to the queen and vote tory.
Best scene for me is in the church with Freebird playing in the background, and I'm sure it's no coincidence that it was set in the deep south, and also interesting that Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote an album called God and Guns, you'll know it when you see it.
Speaking as a former operator of rapier missiles, it was good to see them in a major motion picture, and I'm not surprised they didn't work.
Ignore my rantings, and watch this film!
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