Kingsman: The Secret Service
Director: Matthew Vaughn Year: 2015 Check your expectations and deep-seeking logic at the door and you’ll likely find Kingsman: The Secret Service is a fantastic, ultraviolent, homage-heavy ride through the well-worn space of spy films. For what it is, it works very well. Director Matthew Vaughn (Producer on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, as well as Director of X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass) has played in this space successfully before, so this shouldn’t be a surprise. “First and foremost,” Harry Hart/Galahad (Colin Firth) says, “we are gentlemen.” That line of dialogue in the trailers, however, might have you looking another direction, which is what Vaughn wants. Because, this ain’t that kind of movie, bro. The brutal violence and occasionally deep blue language wouldn’t have the same impact if it ran throughout. It opens with a fairly standard spy scene generically subtitled “1997 in the Middle East” (you know, where ...