So finally after months of waiting, I’ve seen Kingsman: The Secret Service. I first saw a trailer for it via one of these surveys things and instantly fell in love with it. But it’s seems like months since that happened but now that it’s finally out, I pop along to see it at the local Vue cinema, making use of their lovely Super Tuesday offer (thanks Vue!)
I’m not going to lie. It wasn’t to a certain extent what I thought it was going to be. I had initially thought that it was going to be some spoof of all those spy movies & TV shows that had gone before. And to some extent, for me, it is. But it also feels as if this fill a gap in the genre too. Making use of today’s issues such as climate change, technology & class divide give it that modern day approach but isn’t delivered in this ‘been there, done it all’ feeling.
Cast wise, I loved the almost chalk & cheese approach with Colin Firth & Taron Egerton’s characters (Harry Hart & Gary ‘Eggsy’ Unwin respectively) loveable given the posh, well spoken meeting the ‘streets’. Mark Strong’s Merlin (almost akin to Bond’s Q) complete with Scottish accent is brilliant too…ok so maybe I’m being biased here cause I’m Scottish but the delivery of one line near the end of the film just sounded like something that you’d hear screeched on the streets of Glasgow. The only issue that I sort of had was with Samuel L. Jackson. It just felt odd seeing him play a character (Valentine) who’s sick/scared at the sight of blood when we’re so used to seeing him being the kick ass and being the one causing the blood.
There is one scene that I did feel lowered the tone and was felt not needed (again, near the end) not with how well everything had been going before now. Otherwise this was a fairly enjoyable film and not my usual outing. Wouldn’t mind viewing it again. There’s probably small things that I missed the first time round…now…wonder if we’d get a director’s or unedited version when it releases on DVD…apparently some scenes were dropped to get it’s 15 rating.
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