Kingsman: The Secret Service movie review

Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons was responsible to create comic book stories that can be grounded but more realistic because it tends to makes the characters affected by the violent environment. Matthew Vaughn provided different action genre experience. The collaborated when they made Kingsman: The Secret Service comes to life in the silver screen.

The action scenes can be compared to Hong Kong martial arts stunts and the humor was as British as Monty Python. Adding to that is the violent scenes that you can also laugh and be awed. Kingsman also pay tribute to British spy stories like James Bond, The Avengers(not the Marvel Comics but the one with John Steed and Emma Peel) with a little British antics like Austin Powers.

But what I like about Kingsman is that it inclusive unlike its traditional predecessors. It also allow women to contribute to the action as well. But what I like about the Kingsman is that they consider themselves the new Knights and the suit is their armor.

Mark Millar's comic book titles are indeed worthy of movie materials ever since Wanted and Kick Ass. I only thought that Samuel L. Jackson's accent was a bit overdone just to make him sound different. Regardless, I am looking forward to a sequel if this movie pays off the box office when it opens in the Philippines on February 18. Kingsman is released by 20th Century Fox and distributed through Warner Bros. For more quality movie reviews, follow this blog or like L.E.N.S. blogs on Facebook.

Starring Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine. Rated R16. Viewed last Feb. 12 at IMAX Cinema Megamall.