Kingsmen: The Secret Service
Based on the comic book series and brought to you by Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and X-men: First Class, Kingsmen: The Secret Service is an exhilarating tale of tailor-spies trying to rid the world of an evil billionaire villain.
The secret intelligence agency, The Kingsmen, are unaffiliated with any real government agencies. Agent Galahad (Colin Firth) explains that there were lots of wealthy men who died in World War I and were without heirs, so they gave their wealth to their…tailors. Now, the tailors have formed an elite, underground secret society who are to prevent the world of any future wars or harm – sort of incredible, but this is a movie mind you.
This secret society is trying to prevent an internet billionaire, seemingly un-intimidating with his lisp and fear of the sight of blood, from ridding the world of the human race in order to prevent global warming. Whilst this mad-genius (Samuel L. Jackson) is implanting high-profile individuals around the world with “tickets” to his hidden layer in the mountains, there are a group of young men and a woman who have been recruited to join the Kingsmen. The recruits must first pass a series of deadly tests to become the service’s “Lancelot”. So, that is pretty much the plot in a nutshell – become a Kingsmen, derail the villan.
Throughout the movie are high-tech spy gadgets, a villain side-kick with sharp knives for legs, fast car chases, exaggerated fist fights, hardcore parkour, and the human race brutally killing each other off due to SIM card-killing transmitters. The scene where Galahad (Firth) single-handedly slaughters a church full of people while “Free Bird” plays in the background is quite gruesome and unexpected. This movie is exciting and worth seeing, especially if you’re into overly action-filled films, but I will say it is more violent than the trailer suggests.
A solid 8 out of 10 stars.
