Kingsman: The Secret Service Review (2015)

Review by: Brandon Fu
Rated: R (for sequences of strong violence, language, and sexual content)
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn (X-Men First Class)

Kingsman The Secret Service tells the story of Eggsy(Taron Egerton), a gifted, yet troubled youth who inherits a job at a secret government agency: The Kingsmen. Him, along with his mentor Harry Hart(Colin Firth), take on the likes of Samuel L. Jackson with a lisp, and his badass sidekick with FUCKING SWORDS FOR LEGS. Yeah, it's that kind of movie, in which the shit is so over the top that it actually makes it really, really fun.

Let's get the boring stuff out of the way. Everybody in this movie did there job (AKA everyone was pretty badass), except for one: Michael Caine. His character is very passive and it feels like Mr. Caine just phoned it in for one of the billions of movies he has been in.

The obvious pro to this movie is the action. With his experience from X-Men First Class, Vaughn is fully capable of filming fight scenes and firefights. On top of the well filmed action, everything in those action scenes are OVER THE TOP. It is very fun to see things like umbrellas that shoot bullets or lighters that are also hand grenades, so much so that it harkens back to the old bond films that had these gadgets (I'm looking at you Q).

Although this movie is awesome (which it is, duh), there are a couple problems with it. The parts with action are AWESOME, but the parts that in between the fighting are kind of boring and dumbs down the tone of the movie. Especially you, Michael Caine.

Overall, this movie is extremely funny and BADASS(yes I know I used that a lot), but has some bumpy spots. But, you have a girl with sword legs, excessive gore, explosions, Samuel L. Fucking Jackson, and gadgets that make you reminisce about the old bond movies. What more could you want?

3.5/5