Kingsman: The Secret Service

I was given the opportunity to pre-screen the upcoming movie, Kingsman: The Secret Service, free before it comes out in theaters February 13. Not a movie I would usually pick to see in theaters, but it was free!

Cast: Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton

My Opinion: Very cheesy, stupid comedy that kept me entertained for the whole time.

The movie revolves around an intelligence organization known the Kingsmen, who's operatives are modeled after King Arthur and his Knights Of The Round Table (if you don't pick up on that, agents with names like Galahad and Lancelot should clue you in) who, while British in origin, exist outside any governmental structure.The movie plays with, and sometimes parodies, spy films though it most often seems to mimic the Bond films with their fetishistic love of weaponry and secret rooms.Though unlike a Bond film, Kingsmen revels in violence, seemingly for violence's safe. In fact, you could probably add up all the dead from virtually every Bond film made, and it wouldn't come close to the body count in Kingsmen.Samuel Jackson IS REMARKABLE! He's one of the best things in the movie, and his character, Valentine, a billionaire intent on saving the world by killing massive amounts of people–unlike most Bond villains–actually makes a lot of sense.