This is a really unique movie. It’s kind of a parody of James Bond movies,
but at the same time it’s also a pretty serious action movie. For the first 45 minutes or so, the tone
wasn’t working for me at all. But then
the movie got more and more fun, and by the end I was loving it.
The Kingsman is a secret service organization. The members are all named after members of
King Arthur’s knights – the trainer is even named Merlin. Their headquarters is a tailor shop on Savile
Row, because even when fighting for your life and saving the world, a spy
should look and act like a gentleman.
The movie mostly focuses on Eggsy, a young troublemaker
whose father was a kingsman. Years ago
his father was killed saving the life of fellow agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth),
and Harry recruits Eggsy to join the service.
The training program is over-the-top ridiculous, involving things like
their room suddenly filling up with water while they sleep. They have only a minute to figure out how to
escape or they’ll be drowned. Another
exercise involves them jumping out of a plane and one of them doesn’t have a
parachute.
While Eggsy is being trained, internet billionaire Richmond
Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) is threatening to unleash something that will
kill like 99% of Earth’s population.
Jackson speaks in a weird lisp that was kind of off putting at first,
but it grew on me. Valentine has a
henchwoman with mechanical legs loaded with machetes, which is just awesome.
As the movie gets closer to the climax, it gets crazy. I couldn’t believe how far it was going, and
it was hilarious. I won’t spoil it, but
just wait until the sequence in the church.
It brought the house down at the screening I attended.
Overall I liked the movie.
It took a while to get enjoyable for me, but the last half hour or so
more than made up for the weaknesses in the first half.
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