Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Kingsman – Secret Service è una commedia d’azione scanzonata e senza troppe pretese, un atto d’amore per le trame folli, gli effetti speciali pop e l’umorismo british del James Bond interpretato da Roger Moore a cavallo tra ’70 ed ’80.
- Marina Antunes @ Row Three
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Writer/director Matthew Vaughn wears his love for the James Bond movies like a heart on his sleeve. Vaughn’s latest outing “Kingsman” is a larger-than-life, high-octane, high-testosterone theme park ride of a movie that’s so cartoonish it threatens to veer sharply into Austin Powers territory. Fortunately, Vaughn never loses control of his material, and this cinematic love letter to 007 consistently more recalls the self-conscious, self-referential pop culture vibe of “Kick-Ass.”
- Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: It’s a movie that can’t quite seem to decide if it wants to come across as superior to the perceived silliness of its inspiration or if it just wants to go with the silly flow.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: An amusing, rowdy romp – spoofing the concept of dapper gentlemen involved in international intrigue…
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Matthew Vaughn sets up a really enjoyable thriller that engages the viewer….only to throw it in a dumpster during the final quarter.
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: I cannot recall a film that left me with such a sour taste in my mouth by its end. Does the movie deliberately defy itself with obnoxious intent?
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Where James Bond leans mischievous yet serious, the folk at Kingsman are wry and self-aware of their imitation game. “This is not that kind of movie” is a quip offered more than once by the in-on-the-joke spies and villains.
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: Smart genre riffs and hyper-stylized action, Kingsman: The Secret Service manages to provide a clever twist on the spy movie format.
- Oktay Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Triumphantly R-rated, “Kingsman: The Secret Service” is a frenetic, witty blast, and just the kind of fresh take an increasingly overly serious, borderline stale genre needs.
- [New – 10/1/15] | Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: A crownign achievement, perhaps?
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Kingsman is enjoyably self-referential from beginning to end and it (thankfully) never takes itself seriously as it infuses high stakes espionage with Marvel movie escapism. It’s a spy movie for people who love spy movies…
- Frank Ochieng @ SF Crowsnest
- Excerpt: Well, ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ is a cockeyed, pulsating parody that works its ultra-violent magic for the Austin Powers crowd that wants to walk on the high-octane wild side of Bond’s universe.
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: It’s all a relentless fever-dream joke, and Kingsman: The Secret Service works best as a comedy that subverts the James Bond franchise and doesn’t take itself much more seriously than the Austin Powers films.
- Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: After the blight of a worthless movie like Taken 3, here is the kind of action picture I’ve been hungry for, a whip-smart, clever movie that goes where the James Bond pictures won’t dare and turns out the kind of cheeky British humor that the ill-fated Avengers adaptation a decade ago aspired to be.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Kingsman is the reason people go to the movies.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Sarah Ward @ artsHub
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