Our Christmas movie! With Ralph and Karen, we headed off to Cineworld in Castleford to see The King’s Man.
SPOILER-FREE!
Any good? Well, we’d seen both the original Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: the Golden Circle (2017) – and they were quite entertaining and loosely based around the comic book series that debuted in 2014. This latest outing was the prequel set in the lead-up to The Great War.
Clocking in at a bladder-friendly 131 minutes (well, my bladder!), it starred a wealth of well-known faces, including Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Tom Holland and Djimon Hounsou.
Alas, no Colin Firth (contrary to some reports!) Taron Egerton,Mark StrongnorMichael Caine, – and no sign of any of the other characters from the previous two instalments in the franchise either (full cast and crew is HERE). Therefore, not surprisingly, it had a feel all of its own and didn’t rely on the previous two outings for it to make sense. A perfect standalone! 👍
It tells the story of the beginnings of the Kingsman Agency and it’s pretty much non-stop action all the way through! And historically, it was pretty respectful to events around the time the film was set.
Think of it as a James Bond/Indian Jones mash-up! (and better than either IMHO! – surely not???)
Ralph Fiennes excelled as the action hero (which was a very pleasant surprise) and Rhys Ifans’ character is just plain sinister. Do take a few tissues though! 😢😢
In short: great acting, great music, great story, great script, great cinematography and great special effects. Bet you can’t guess who the ‘big bad’ turns out to be!!! (We didn’t!)?
Ann and I don’t often agree on ratings for films these days, but we both said that for us, this was the best film we’d seen in ages! 👍👍👍👍👍
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