Kingsman: The Secret Service is a violent movie, filled with blood, guts and gore. With the amount of cursing incorporated, it would be possible to buy an Aston Martin from the change in the swear jar. This film satisfies all criteria to be an R-rated movie.
Kingsman is a movie that not only mocks special agent movies, but also salutes the classic James Bond character. Viewers will be enthralled by lighters that become hand grenades, poison-tip shoes, bullet proof suits, and crazy computer chips.
Everything has a concealed lever, but what is no secret is that this movie is truly enjoyable to watch.
It is as fun as the old movies and still manages to elicit laughter.
Secret Agent Veteran Harry Hart, codename “Galahad” (Colin Firth) — a true gentleman — recruits street tough Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Edgerton) to take part in a series of tests so the Kingsman (The Secret Agency) can find a new “Lancelot.”
Eggsy starts off as a bad mannered potty mouth with a dark streak who eventually evolves into a gentleman.
The “Q” (Quartermaster) equivalent for this movie is “Merlin” (Mark Strong), who puts the recruits through a series of escalating tests in order to find the worthy replacement while the head honcho, “Arthur” (Michael Caine), watches over them from afar.
The primary antagonist in this film is “Valentine” (Samuel L. Jackson), who is exactly the bad guy one would predict. He is the ruthless and deranged head of a popular technology company.
His malicious plot involves making the world’s inhabitants go insane by using the phone chips he produces to trigger something in their brains which makes them hostile and violent.
From his lair in the mountains (not a volcano, unfortunately), he will leave a portion of the elite population to survive unharmed and start a new civilization.
The plot is predictable at times. Despite this, it does not make the movie any less fun. It is both a shame and a virtue that there is such over the top violence.
If you can remember Kick-Ass from 2009, the movies share directors and authors of source material; director Matthew Vaughn really makes some movie magic using Mark Millar’s comic book as a guide.
There are a lot of great scenes in the movie including some over-the-top (though riveting) hand-to-hand combat, a reverse car chase scene, and an interesting scene to the tune of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird.”
If viewers can handle the insane violence factor, the movie is both entertaining and quick-witted, and a must-see for anyone that ever wanted an umbrella that was also a bulletproof stun gun.