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What exactly is it that Michael Vaughn wants to do with KINGSMAN? Is he trying to make a didactic film about class and style? Is he trying to remake the vintage bonds for a new audience? Or is he spoofing them? The difficulty of working out what's going on makes KINGSMAN sporadically entertaining but ultimately dis-satisfying and occasionally baffling.
What exactly is it that Michael Vaughn wants to do with KINGSMAN? Is he trying to make a didactic film about class and style? Is he trying to remake the vintage bonds for a new audience? Or is he spoofing them? The difficulty of working out what's going on makes KINGSMAN sporadically entertaining but ultimately dis-satisfying and occasionally baffling.
The conceit of the movie is that the Kingsman are an elite spy organisation run in the interests of the public good, above and beyond corrupt governments. A Kingsman agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth) sponsors a young kid called Eggsy (Taron Egerton) into a competitive entry test to become a Kingsman. He isn't as posh as the other entrants, but Harry reassures him that to be a gentleman is about manners rather than breeding. In the process, Eggsy becomes an active spy trying to bring down the evil super villain slash internet billionaire Valentine (Samuel L Jackson) with the help of the Kingsman's tech specialist Merlin (Mark Strong).