The new adventure action movie āKingsman: The Secret Serviceā is considered by moviegoers to be a real hurricane insane mixture of the well-known ābondiadā, the super-popular āHarry Potterā and all the youth comedies from the creator of the film movie āPipetsā.
Virtuoso genre templates
It has been as long as five years since the slightly hooligan Kick directed by Matthew Vaughn burst into the superhero comic book genre, and now Kingsman (critics' reviews emphasize this fact) has also suddenly invaded feature films about super spies. Director Matthew Vaughn, in a creative union with comic book author Mark Millar, as in the project āKick-Assā, masterfully juggle with genre templates, while remaining ironic enough so that the film does not turn into a parody. Matthew himself calls his creation āKingsmanā (reviews of the film are full of this statement) a love letter to the classic ābondiadā and all the other espionage series and films that he likes to revise: āFlint's Doubleā (1967), āIpcress Dossierā ( 1965), The Avengers (1961). The result of the joint work of Vaughn and Millard was a good, tightly āknocked togetherā action, with canonical villains and heroes, a sexy girlfriend and insanely beautiful killers (evil is always so sexy), and all this against the background of the frantic drive that every episode is different from. Such a ācocktailā is what Vaughnās films are famous for, supporting in the hearts of viewers genuine jealousy for the world of secret intelligence services and leaving a feeling, albeit not too sincere, but extremely spectacular, typically box-office Hollywood cinema!
Explosive kinomix
In his new film, the British director, mostly working in Hollywood, strictly follows the well-established formula for success, which he tested on the anarchist comic strip Kick before creating this project. Vaughn just shakes and mixes at first glance completely incompatible movie genres. In the 2010 comedy thriller, a youth comedy about the adventures of a real loser and a superhero comic hit their foreheads. Reviews of the film āKingsmanā, shot based on the work of the same Mark Millar, indicate that the mix is āāin maximum mode and is about to explode. The creators took a little from the classic āBondā - the spy center operates under the official guise of an atelier for tailoring men's suits and accessories ā pomegranate pens, dagger shoes and bulletproof umbrellas. After that they added a little fantasy - the stepfather and mother of the protagonist are very similar to the Dursleys, but who are more scoffed and associated with crime, mock the brilliant child until one day a savior magician suddenly appears on the threshold. Kingsman compares the audienceās reviews with Hogwarts, but instead of a personal owl, each student has a dog, and instead of a cherished magic wand, he has a costume that has unique properties.
Plot
In the past, the super agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth) saved his life by covering his body with a grenade, his colleague and friend. In gratitude, Harry vows to take care of Eggsy (Theron Edgerton) - the son of his late friend. Unattended, this clever and intellectually gifted young man rolls down an inclined road. The near future threatens him to go to jail or find himself somewhere in a ditch with an overdose. Harry pulls the young man out of another mess and makes him an offer to join the ranks of scouts, having passed the mandatory training course at Kingsman. But there is too little time for training and gaining spy knowledge - an urgent matter appears, which the main characters have to deal with. A certain Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), a mysterious billionaire from the USA, distributes SIM cards around the world, luring people with free Internet and telephony, silently steals celebrities and prepares a huge plan to reduce the earth's population. According to Valentine, who is not without logic, people are a very dangerous fungus that kills our beautiful planet.
Cast
Reviews of the film āKingsmanā emphasize that the heart of even the most cynical skeptic movie fan begins to beat faster from the cast of the picture. Colin Firth gives out performances one worse than the other, Samuel Jackson so reliably portrays the classic villain, with such rapture that it is impossible to admire him. Fantastic Michael Kane and Mark Strong are so famously fighting the young Sophie Cookson and Sophia Butella that the picture, like fireworks, sparkles with all the colors of the rainbow. All the actorās splendor of the film āKingsmanā (reviews of casting is exclusively laudatory) is abundantly seasoned with an impressive portion of satire and humor (very frivolous moments), stunning special effects and a rhythmic soundtrack.
A spoon of tar
In fairness, it is worth noting that the picture "Kingsman: Secret Service" reviews received not only enthusiastic and laudatory. Domestic film critics are comparing the starring star of Edgerton, who exchanged the teenager āolympicā for a chic costume, with our Garik Kharlamov, and the film itself with the domestic comedy āThe Best Movieā. Foreign experts in the field of cinema manage to find similarities with the American Pie (according to the present piquancy). These are the "Kingsman" reviews. Can a child watch a British picture? Parents decide, if he had already watched āKick-Assā and he liked the film, then go ahead - let him join the movie novelty. A 20-minute climax action attraction in the villain's residence high in the mountains is crowned with a closeup of the buttocks of a rescued beauty - a neutral Scandinavian blonde. What can I say, the imagination of the creators is truly limitless, although creative courage still has clearly defined limits. It pleases and saves the film "Kingsman: The Secret Service." Reviews of the film for the most part condemn excessive frivolity.
7 facts to view
In addition to impeccably fitting costumes, an inimitable accent of Samuel L. Jackson, there are 5 more nuances that prompt you to view the most insanely fun spy picture of recent years - āKingsman: Secret Serviceā. The film, reviews of which it is called the most remote among spy films, contains an incredible amount of bully enthusiasm and crushing action. Decorators, dressers and make-up artists of the painting did their best - she has an unforgettable chic style. All suits fit perfectly, because they were sewn to order. After the release of the picture, Mr. Porter has released a special collection of clothes called Kingsman, and now every item from the wardrobe of your favorite character can be bought online.
Colin Firth in the action
Firthās name is associated either with the stuttering king from the film āThe King Speaks!ā Or with Mr. Darcy (āBridget Jonesā), especially advanced professors may recall gay men (āThe Lonely Manā) - that is, comedies or dramas that do not require the manifestation of knowledge of martial arts. "Kingsman" (reviews from fans of the actor give an enthusiastic assessment of his new personality) shows Fert's skills in battle - he waves his fists, practices martial arts and can easily put anyone on his shoulder blades. It is noticeable that it is a pleasure for him - to have been in the status of an intellectual bore for so many years and finally play a movie with fights!
Without love passions
A large number of espionage films were greatly corrupted by the presence of a love line, which is not obligatory in them (unnecessary lyric stamps fit into the plot about a manās love for weapons, booze and duty). The film āKingsmanā (reviews emphasize its self-sufficiency) does well without the presence of a fatal girl, who the protagonist must fall in love with, and, accordingly, without a demonstration of a seduction master class. A great non-conformist option for lovers.
Generational change
You can endlessly be ironic about the storyline of the picture "Kingsman: The Secret Service", reviews of the film are sometimes similar to a humorous feuilleton. But sometimes the movie looks pretty serious - for example, one of the secondary (auxiliary and branch) storylines illuminates the problem of domestic violence. Also, the creators walked quite rigidly through the British class system - Eggsy is reproached every now and then for the lack of an elite education and simple origin.
Without cynicism and snobbery. Kingsman reviews
The film collects reviews mostly positive, although there is something to complain about to a skeptical audience. However, the entire creative team managed to achieve such an effect that those who looked at the picture did not want to find fault with and point out errors. In any case, according to the majority of viewers who managed to join this masterpiece, Kingsman is a great effective way to forget about your cynicism and snobbery (which are often made fun of in the movies) for the duration of timekeeping.
Benefit of Samuel Jackson
Most moviegoers associate Jackson with Pulp Fiction or Marvel films, but his new role in Kingsman surpasses all the previous ones, he is the coolest and brightest in his track record. Shocking appearance ( Jil Sander glasses , rapper baseball cap, insanely bright shirts), Kanye West's spoofed accent and outstanding ruthlessness to the human race - for a long time there were no such remote and ruthless villains in the film industry.
Reboot genre
I wonder what kind of feedback would Kingsman have had (if it had existed in reality)? The film reviews are called shameless entertainment. At Kingsman, he grinds all conceivable genre and national cliches, beginning with the way to dress and ending with an accent, from young snobs from Eaton to broken boys from the area, from exaggerated deification of animals to worship before a quality drink, from Michael Kane to Colin Firth, from the song Dire Straits to Roxy Music. Sometimes the Wonovian irony turns into outright rudeness, but, despite this, the good old Britain managed to raise really good guys. Of course, the film uses a lot of cliches: a novice agent and his mentor wise in life, a villain of a global scale, threatening the existence of the whole planet, and his sexy girlfriend, a secret bunker, āstuffedā with super-equipment, and stunning adventures, and in the end - the expected happy ending to the musical masterpiece of Brian Ferry. But this whole set of classic banalities, only in good hands, could become such a film as Kingsman - moderately fervent, charismatic and very ātastyā. This is where Vaughnās talent was manifested - in the ability to turn even predictable and to the maximum expected scenes into an easy, direct, and most importantly, integral plot, from which the viewer does not reduce cheekbones from boredom, but is breathtaking.
The juiciest moments
Nevertheless, this is not just another action on the topic of super-super-secret services and "bad" guys, who as a result turn out to be the best agents of Her Majesty the Queen. In general, everything, as always, except for one ābutā: according to the scriptwriters, the hero turned out to be so cheeky, spreading the heads of the main villainās minions to the right and left, that this film was banned from showing in a loyal and democratic Sweden. Although, perhaps, the reason for this lies in the inhumane attitude towards our smaller brothers (we recall that the hero, forgetting about the ubiquitous Greenpeace, dared to point his gun at the handsome pug). But these are flowers - the most discussed scene was the episode of the massacre in the fundamentalist church, which changed the polarity of the hitherto evil, slightly "black" humor permeating the film, to something darker, somewhere affecting the moral foundations of deeply religious people. And, unfortunately, the audience did not succeed in understanding what the director wanted to express with this fragment. Although Vaughn was clearly not to be occupied with creativity and creative imagination, because even the last minutes of the film, the other directors were usually āblurryā and drawn out to impossibility, he managed to decorate with a couple of episodes that were simply breathtaking.
Separately, it is worth noting the main helper of Doctor Evil, played by an Algerian dancer - this āsexyā could be an excellent decoration of any ābondiadā. Fert was also magnificent, who, despite all his irony over the old-fashioned film, sometimes looked even more āanachronistic,ā without noticing it, turning into a hero of an ordinary class āBā action movie.