This movie could have been so much better........ Yes the action sequences are really good, and there are some very fun moments in the film. That being said, any action movie is only as good as the villain. The villain drives the story, makes us hate him, fear him, so we will want our heroes to kick his butt and be vested in their story. So when Samuel L. Jackson shows up afraid of blood or he will puke (they only put this in so they can show him puking later), never having killed or even hurt anyone in his life. So far a really weak villain. It gets worse, add to this his tweedy bird meets some famous boxer Lisp, silly silk baseball hat and awful, over-acting and he is now the worst super villain ever. Change this to a straight comedy and it might fly but as an action film? Total fail. I was enjoying the movie pretty much till he would show up again and remind me it's a movie. The Kingsmen themselves are really amazing. The first scene where a Kingsman takes out a houseful of baddies to save Mark Hamill is completely awesome. These Kingsman look invincible, till....... Somehow an invisible (must be) blade runner girl cuts him in half without making a single sound (off camera, don't feel bad, he didn't see it either). Man she is incredible to take out one of these guys, I mean the training they go through to become a Kingsmen is insane. In fact, most of the movie as they recruit a replacement for this amazing agent (who was killed like a lamb at slaughter) we are made to understand the rigors and real extent of a Kingsmen's training and we are saying "okay, I get it. These guys are the best, trained for anything and anyone." We believe! And if we didn't, just wait...... to further prove how invincible (almost) a Kingsmen is we are shown a scene where one single Kingsmen takes out 100 people, single handed, at once!
Man he must have the senses of a cat, reflexes like lightning! No one can touch him in all this mayhem, because he is a Kingsmen! Next......this very same Kingsmen for some reason just stands there while Tweedy-Villain just pulls a gun and shoots him in the head. No dodging, no slapping the gun away, no ducking, no grabbing our scary Tweedy-Villain as a hostage. He just stands there and eats a bullet. Huh? What happened? Suspended disbelief is shattered!
How can a wimpy, untrained weenie who never hurt a fly in person for fear of projectile vomiting be able to get the drop on Super-Bond?
I mean this Kingsmen guy was locked in a church with 100 crazy people and he killed all of them! I literally yelled at the TV.
Did that jet do vertical lift with only rear engines? Maybe I'll run that part back ;-)
Of course our trainee is better and faster than any other Kingsmen. He can defeat the slick blade runner girl by letting her tire out from all that brake dancing, and then nicking her with poison while she is busy doing a perfect Bruce Lee flying kick (watch close in that scene, she is looking straight ahead while he cuts her, she is frozen in a Bruce Lee pose). Maybe is she turned her head she might have dodged that one. Wait a minute, those blades that pop out of her feet, where are they the rest of the time when she is just walking? Stuck in her knees? Ouch!
We knew he would win, he had a promise of anal sex with a princess, duh!
OK, if none of that stuff matters; If you can live with that kind of broken storytelling , just sit back and watch some really cool action scenes that are really well choreographed and some crazy, really obvious special effects on a Saturday with some popcorn and a beer.
It could be worse, It wasn't World War Z
Man he must have the senses of a cat, reflexes like lightning! No one can touch him in all this mayhem, because he is a Kingsmen! Next......this very same Kingsmen for some reason just stands there while Tweedy-Villain just pulls a gun and shoots him in the head. No dodging, no slapping the gun away, no ducking, no grabbing our scary Tweedy-Villain as a hostage. He just stands there and eats a bullet. Huh? What happened? Suspended disbelief is shattered!
How can a wimpy, untrained weenie who never hurt a fly in person for fear of projectile vomiting be able to get the drop on Super-Bond?
I mean this Kingsmen guy was locked in a church with 100 crazy people and he killed all of them! I literally yelled at the TV.
Did that jet do vertical lift with only rear engines? Maybe I'll run that part back ;-)
Of course our trainee is better and faster than any other Kingsmen. He can defeat the slick blade runner girl by letting her tire out from all that brake dancing, and then nicking her with poison while she is busy doing a perfect Bruce Lee flying kick (watch close in that scene, she is looking straight ahead while he cuts her, she is frozen in a Bruce Lee pose). Maybe is she turned her head she might have dodged that one. Wait a minute, those blades that pop out of her feet, where are they the rest of the time when she is just walking? Stuck in her knees? Ouch!
We knew he would win, he had a promise of anal sex with a princess, duh!
OK, if none of that stuff matters; If you can live with that kind of broken storytelling , just sit back and watch some really cool action scenes that are really well choreographed and some crazy, really obvious special effects on a Saturday with some popcorn and a beer.
It could be worse, It wasn't World War Z
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