Kingsman: The Secret Service (1 Viewer)

Wow, how could there not already be a topic on this movie??


Opens tonight/tomorrow. Reviews are pretty darn decent (currently 74% at RT). Jeremy Jahns loved it:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVEOk9Nw9rg&spfreload=10



Previous engagements will prevent me from seeing it until early next week.


Mark

I'm seeing it tomorrow night. I think it looks really cool and I'm looking forward to it.

I'll be seeing the first showing of it tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it!

Going 2moro as well.

On my list to see. Looks like a lot of fun.

My son has been waiting for this movie to come out. We are going Sunday morning.

I just got back from my showing. A fun film as I laughed my butt off throughout the gratuitous violence and punch lines during my showing. My only problem with it, I wish I could activate sub titles as there were too many spoken lines I couldn't quite understand with those Brit accents.

My wife and I saw this today and we enjoyed it very much! The action and SFX were spot-on, the story was compelling, the spoofing of James Bond was funny, the tongue was firmly in cheek, and the actors and actresses hit their marks. SLJ and Colin Firth were very good in their rolls, as was the new kid who starred. And, while there was a little too much actiony craziness at the end, it was just a *little* too much.

This was a very appealing Marvel-based film. Hope it doesn't get washed away by the 50 Shades tidal wave.

75/100

I hope to see this this weekend.

The film was a little long, but it's ludicrously violent at times, and has a lot of fun with carnage and mayhem in an entertaining way. They got a lot of mileage with their R rating. The film has Matthew Vaughn's style stamped all over it.


I give it 2.75 stars or a grade of B-.

^ Patrick almost entirely summed up my thoughts. Even though it felt an hour longer than it actually was, it was always fun, funny and over the top.

I thought this was lots of fun.

The scene in the church was insane.

Loved their take on the hero rescuing the princess!

Mark Booth said:

Wow, how could there not already be a topic on this movie??


Opens tonight/tomorrow. Reviews are pretty darn decent (currently 74% at RT). Jeremy Jahns loved it:



Previous engagements will prevent me from seeing it until early next week.


Mark

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This came out of nowhere, for me. Saw a preview before Moulin Rouge Sing-Along (because: Alamo). It looked a mixture of February dumping-ground and potentially way fun. My wife was intrigued, too. So, it's on the list of possibles.

Saw tonight. Over the top humor and violence.


A little bit of Samuel L Jackson as a bad guy goes a long way... This had a LOT of Samuel L Jackson as the bad guy.


The only thing I didn't like was

Greg Kettell said:

Saw tonight. Over the top humor and violence.

The only thing I didn't like was

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the final test to become a Kingsman. I don't see how they can demand teamwork and loyalty and then ask you to shoot the dog you raised. I thought for sure refusing to shoot the dog would be the key to passing the test.

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I agree, Greg.

Very entertaining movie. The action choreography was well done and most of the humor hit the mark with me. I'll probably see this again soon.

I agree with Greg's take on his spoiler tagged comment.

I really enjoyed this. It was simultaneously a gleeful sendup of and loving tribute to "The Avengers" TV series and the pre-Dalton Bond films.

It seemed strange that Fox was putting this up against the 50 Shades of Gray juggernaut, but it appears to have been savvy counterprogramming; while it fell well short of that film's $81 million opening, it still made a much healthier than expected $35.6 million and will likely top $40 million with Monday's holiday factored in. And since Matthew Vaughn knows how to make blockbusters on a budget, this one should have no problem making back its $81 million cost. With the international box office factored in, it's less than $2 million away already.

Enjoyed it very much. Better than a lot of the Bond films including Skyfall for me.

Was I the only one laughing

Robert Crawford said:

Was I the only one laughing

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during the exploding heads sequence near the end of the film?

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I laughed my butt off. The church sequence alone, was worth the price of admission.