Kingsman The Secret Service

Kingsman The Secret Service

IMDB: 8.2 Rotten Tomatoes: 81%

The Kingsman stars Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton and Sophie Cookson. Directed by Matthew Vaughn based on a graphic novel by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.

This is the story of a young british man named Eggsy who lives in the poorer side of town and when he gets into trouble with the police one call brings Harry Hart into his life. Harry owes his life to Eggsy's father who died protecting him and now Harry wants to make good on his debt by offering a new life to Eggsy, a life with The Kingsman a non-government connected secret service but first Eggsy must complete the try outs and earn his spot. All this time Harry is investigating the disapperance of Professor Arnold, the always wonderful Mark Hamill, which leads him to the much larger and far more dangerous plot of Valentine, a hilarious turn by Samuel L. Jackson. 

This is the type of film with over the top evil schemes, henchmen with razor sharp prosthetic legs, more gadgets than a Brookestone and heads that explode Scanners style in glorious techno color fashion in fountains of red, blue and yellow to classical music. The story is a throw back to Roger Moore era bond where the plots were outlandishly fun before the spy genre started taking itself too seriously. The violence maintains a balance of grotesque and laugh out loud funny delivering a film that hits all the notes. 

The cast is fantastic, Colin Firth as the suave James Bond type with an easy charm and fast reflexes is a stand out performance unlike any he has delivered before. Taron Egerton as Eggsy strikes the right balance of a kid at the bottom wanting to do right and a hothead looking for vengeance. The stand out though is Samuel L. Jackson in the anti bad-ass role as a tech geek that vomits at the site of blood yet is willing to massacre the world, as for what his plan is well that's part of the fun of the movie and I'll let you discover it yourself. This film deserves to be seen and I highly recommend it, in fact I recommend it highly enough that I plan on taking my oldest son with me to see it.

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