Notes on…

Kingsman: The Secret Service(2015)

Dir. Directed by Matthew Vaughn

I think I actually dislike the typeface they use throughout the movie too. Weirdly, my copy was missing the controversial anal sex scene in the last moments, otherwise it might be even worse.


The climactic sequence of Kingsman: The Secret Service, a sub–Zack Snyder abortion of an action film, absolutely dripping with fascistic smugness, features Colin Firth committing genocide in a church. It’s a gorefest that aims for an Inglourious [Basterds] liberal catharsis (the parishioners are all right-wing, gay-bashing racists), but instead proves as powerful a calling card for the religious right as anything Mel Gibson would contemplate directing. [To] the many valuable reasons for preserving the use of 35mm film stock in distribution, we can now add one more: it allows us to call for every last copy of Kingsman: The Secret Service to be burned.

Julien Allen (Reverse Shot)

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Synopsis: The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.