Based on another Mark Millar creation.The movie looks much more interesting than the comic book counterpart.Can't blame Matthew Vaughn decide to do this over X-men DOFP.
Sick music track from The Doors - Five to One.

This post has been edited by 6so: May 28 2014, 06:20 PM

Must read trailer breakdown by Matthew Vaughn himself.
http://www.empireonline.com/features/kings...er-breakdown/p1

Manners maketh man

Red band trailer with salty language.

It's a throwback to Roger Moore era of James Bond template. An eccentric megalomaniac villain with his distinctive quirky henchman plotting to end the world. Instead of Jaws,Oddjob,Nick Nack,etc...you get a lisping SLJ and Sofia Boutella with her deadly prosthetic legs. Overall, it's a pastiche of all the older spy movies you like as a kid and blends together for this entertaining action flick. Above all it does not take itself too serious as Bond 24 will be that kind of movie later this year. It's not reinventing the wheel just the right use of ingredients to make the whole thing works. Colin Firth is the main reason to watch this movie. You simply just see him in a different light and the newcomer Taron Edgerton does hold his candle among all the big name actors. Be ready to drop your jaw during the church scene.

Matthew Vaughn is fast becoming the type of film director who can open a movie based on his name alone. It's worth noting the whole Kingsman idea was conceived during Kick-ass filming where he outlined the story and hand it over to Mark Millar to conceive the comic book. When he finished x-men the first class, he started to adapt the comic book with his longtime writing partner Jane Goldman and self-financed the production of Kingsman. He gave up DOFP directing gig so he can concentrate on Kingsman. When DOFP hit the box-office which was based on 80% of Vaughn's script, Fox swoop in to pick up the tab for Kingsman so to lock him in the fox camp.

It's easy pick among all the bland CNY movies.

Kickass 2 was not written by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. X-men: Days of Future Past also written by them before they jump ship to Kingsman. Bryan Singer crash and burn X-men The Apocalypse just like Superman Returns. So it's not hard to tell where the secret sauce came from.

As far as pop corn movie goes, they have yet to disappoint. I believe Matthew Vaughn had a strong intuition for nerdy properties and would rather put his own money on the table to make the movies he wanted. It's evident his CG sequences and production quality a little behind the AAA players but his film direction and story telling sense made up for it.

IIRC he gave Marvel Studio the middle finger once he realized he couldn't retain his creative vision. Unfortunately, Jon Favreau, Joss Whedon, Edgar Wright were not so lucky...

Feast your eyeballs with the glorious manners that maketh men.

Eggsy crossover with Archer.

Too bad the last two seasons of Archer quite tame.

One word...excessive.
While it retain the style and things you come to like about the first one, it just unrestrained with kinetic pacing and mishandling of the story. Out goes the campy spy homage and everything just on the eleven with in your face jokes. If you switch off your brain you may come to appreciate it as a mindless sequel, if you are looking for things that expand on the first movie....this is not that flick.
There you have it...the first misfire from Vaughn otherwise impressive streak of highly watchable movies.

It looks like Matthew Vaughn is entering the no longer hot film director phase. Two thirds of the movie spent on convoluted set-up. His depiction of the senseless WW1 is very juvenile and barely scratching the surface of what really happened. Only the third act is where all the Kngsman action really taking place. Can't wait for the movie to end, boring and silly like Kingsman 2.