April 2015 | Issue 6.2 | OutBoise.com
That young man is Eggsy,
played by Taron Egerton,
who falls under that mentorship of his recruiter Harry Hat
codename: Galahad who is
played by Colin Firth. During
Eggsy’s intense training and
adjustment period into the
Kingsman Secret Service, it
comes to the attention of
the Secret Service that a
global tech threat is about
to happen. Who is the evil
mastermind behind all this
chaos, none other than the
villain Valentine, played delightfully by Samuel L. Jackson. Valentine is not your
everyday Villain, he can’t stand the sight of blood
and has a sensitive stomach.
I must say that I wasn’t expecting to watch his
one in the theaters. I was more than happy willing to wait for it on Netflix. But as luck would have
it, My friend and I went to see a movie and we
arrived later than expected. Due to this, we went
with our plan B that happened to be Kingsman.
I’m so glad we got to see this film instead. Vaughn
does a wonderful job of creating plenty of back
story for each of the characters so you can understand the wheres and whys. He likes to use lighting to set a dramatic tone, I noticed. If any of you
have already seen the film, would you agree with
that?
The script writing is really something in this film.
Since this story takes place in England, you will
note that they use a lot of proper English and
British-slang. But it is done so well that you won’t
have any problem following along. Some of the
dialogue is so crafted and place that it will catch
you off guard and make you think did they just
say that? And they do, which is why I like the way
Vaughn used timed humor and something tangi-
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ble in more realistic scenarios which really helped
make this movie work so well.
One interesting move Vaughn did was to play
on the dynamics of the characters. For instance,
Sofia Boutella plays the femme fatale in the film.
She tends to steal every scene she is in. Her very
presence commands the screen with her saying
a word. Some of her fight sequences are simply
visually amazing. She was the one I was most interested in while watching the movie. If you’re a fan
on the graphic novel then you know about her. I,
however, didn’t read the comic before watching
it and was completely drawn into her. When you
see the film for yourself, you will understand why.
The soundtrack seems like it may be worth a
listen too as well. I know I like a few of the tunes I
heard from the film. Alright then, that’s what I got
to say about the movie. Overall really like it a lot.
It was fun and entertaining to watch without it being overkill on the plot twists within plot twist, etc.
Definitely not for the kiddos though. There is still a
good amount of subject matter and violence that
the little ones shouldn’t see. If you can still see it
in the theatre, I would highly recommend it. Until
next month.