Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) by Gabriel D — 08 Sep 2017

Kingsman: The Secret Service is a delightful surprise, the movie that had everything to be just a generic spy flick turned out to be one of the best action movies of 2015. Whether you take it as a parody or as a homage, Kingsman is great at both, it combines everything that made the genre so good into a very unique piece of entertainment, the gadgets, the megalomaniac villains, the badass fight scenes, it's the kind of movie that is so fun that you just don't want it to end.

Regarding the technical aspect, the movie is style from beginning to end. The direction is amazing, I thought Matthew Vaughn was great in X-Men: First Class, but here, he's much more free to do what he wants to do, and it gives the movie a really exotic look (you'll remember the church scene). The cast is excellent, there is not even a single miscast here, Colin Firth is excellent, so are Samuel L Jackson and Taron Egerton.

Perhaps Kingsman is not a movie for everyone, it might be too silly for some, too violent for others, or even offensive for those who are not used to the dark humor used here. But if you're tired of the new spy movies that just want to be serious and dramatic, and miss the old ones, that just wanted to be fun, give Kingsman a shot and you won't regret it.