Theater Whore: Kingsman The Secret Service

Kingsman The Secret Service 7/10

I got a chance to see Kingsman: The Secret Service and if I had known who directed it beforehand I would not have been surprised by how awesome the fight scenes would be as well as how violent. This is the story of a team that was formed to fight secret battles that threaten the world. After one mission in the Middle East an agent in training dies. Harry Hart played by Colin Firth heads to the home of the dead man and his wife wants none of his sympathy. He gives a medal to a young boy and tells him to call if he is ever in trouble.

Fast forward seventeen years to the boy, Gary “Eggsy” Unwin played by Taron Egerton, having to deal with his mother marrying an alcoholic abusive guy and totally ignoring her baby. Eggsy leaves the house and gets arrested after stealing a car from an asshat that threatens to beat him up.

At the same time a professor is kidnapped and rescued by an agent that is awesome. Seriously, if you want to see cool fight scenes with guys wearing great looking suits this is the movie for you. The agent is killed by this henchwoman named Gazelle played by Sofia Boutella that fights with blades on her not legs. I mistakenly thought her fake legs were real fake legs but there is a chick with fake legs that was supposed to play this part. She works for a bad guy named Richmond Valentine played by Samuel L. Jackson. He hates blood and vomits if he sees it. His plan is to give free cell phone service and internet to the world. Sounds great because its not wholly true.

When Eggsy is arrested he calls the number on the medal he was given and Hart shows up. He tells him the truth about his father while kicking all kinds of ass. Eggsy is brought into the Kingsman as a recruit which Hart has not done since the death of Eggsy's father. Others are brought in as well with one of them dying the first night. The training is pretty hardcore and meant to weed everyone out. It is run by Merlin played by a cool Mark Strong.

This was a really fun movie and I was surprised by the amount of actors in it. I didn't know much about this and based on the trailer I didn't know how violent it was. This is not a fun kids movie like it seemed. I was most impressed by Firth being such an action star and commented that it is funny how the best ones we have today are almost 60 years old.

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