The
best, and one of the very rare good, parts of “Kingsman: The Secret
Service” are shown in the trailer with Colin Firth showing off his James
Bond moves taking down 6 street thugs.

The movie is not funny
enough to be a comedy though it tries, certainly not enough satire to be
a comic version of James Bond or Jason Bourne, with both being referred
to as are old movies and so is “My Fair Lady” regarding the
transformation of street thug Taron Egerton to a Saville Row gentleman.
There is an unrecognizable Mark Hamlin who provides an unsaid reference
to “Star Wars”. By the way, does Samuel L. Jackson serving a big Mac
remind you of still another movie?

The body count in “Kingman:
The Secret Service” totals more than the last 10 thrillers you may have
seen and so many are not only gratuitous but graphic, such as a guy
being sliced in half vertically. From Firth taking down the 4 thugs he
will eventually take down 50 or more people by himself in a church that
is one of the worst vulgar speaking scenes I can ever recall in a movie.

Jackson
as the villain who gets sick at the sight of blood, Sofia Boutella as
his henchwoman who wears blade feet prosthetics to slice people up,
Michael Caine as head of the Kingman’s organization, Samantha Womack as
Egerton’s mother who is abused by her boyfriend, Geoff Bell--remember
this is suppose to be a comedy and/or a take off of comics--with Jackson
showing any sort of camp villainy the only one who seems to be having
fun.

Taron Egerton makes an impressive debut, along with
providing some eye candy, and Colin Firth is an impeccable pseudo James
Bond while Sophie Cookson as a rival recruit of Egerton’s to become a
Kingsman (Kingswoman?) holds her own against the men. A standout is Mark
Strong as their trainer.

The various weapons, as in the Bond’s
films, are a highlight but two low points are a vulgar, completely
needless scene near the end involving Hanna Alstrom as a Swedish
princess and a scene where a recruit has to choose between shooting a
dog he/she have trained or becoming a Kingsman.

The direction by
Matthew Vaughn, and screenplay by Jane Goldman with Vaughn, is poorly
edited and both are all over the place. The music is bombastic at times
and at other times has nothing to do with the scene on the screen.

Right now, in just the first 6 weeks of  2015, “Kingman” is vying with “Jupiter Descending” for worst picture of the year.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8F-8tR8to