This weekend at the box office is most certainly going to
belong to Fifty Shades of Grey. But if you’re looking for
something different, something not insipid and tedious, you’ll want to check
out Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic Kingsman: TheSecret Service. It’s the first of what are going to be many spy, or
spy-spoof movies slated to hit in 2015 (The Man from
U.N.C.L.E., Spectre, the latest James Bond film,
and another Mission: Impossible are all on the way, among
others), and it’s a nonstop blast from beginning to end.
Early on, if you had told me I’d be getting really excited
for Kingsman: The Secret Service, I would have chuckled and
given you a good-natured, “Sure.” It just didn’t look particularly good. But
here we are, less than a month out, and the more I see, the more pumped I am.
Not only does it look like a total blast, it’s getting startlingly good
reviews, even from outlets that normally hate this kind of movie, and you have
to appreciate any movie where just a normal looking dude is a total badass. In
this new clip, you get to watch Colin Firth, the most calm, low-key British man
imaginable, dismantle an entire bar full of goons, and that’s a good time. And
he’s got tons of fantastic spy gizmos.
