In short, if you're as fed up with lame wannabe Die-Hards and Terminators as I am, go watch this film. But it's also a fantastic action film with an amazing cast (Oscar winners Colin Firth and Michael Caine, plus Sam Jackson AND Mark Hamill) and spectacular, over-the-top fight-scenes that in some instances even rival films like 'The Raid' for their sheer visceral intensity. You could say that this is to Bond what 'Game of Thrones' is to 'Lord of the Rings': Where the former can't and dare not go (for marketing and box office reasons), the latter joyfully and gloriously ventures. I don't know, maybe Matthew Vaughn has read that interview too and saw the potential, because 'Kingsman' is pretty much that: An ultra violent, funny, crazy, foul-mouthed James Bond film (with a little bit of 'Men in Black' and 'Mission Impossible' thrown in). Sadly, that never happened, but ever since I read that I wondered what an R-rated Bond might be like. Years ago Tarantino said in an interview that he had written a James Bond script and that he would love to direct a Bond film. This film is nothing short of bat-shît crazy. I had already read some comments from previous screenings that this film was totally bad-ass, and I can now say that's actually putting it mildly. 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' was being shown just around the corner from where I live, and because I loved two of director Matthew Vaughn's previous films, 'Layer Cake' and 'Kick-Ass', I naturally took the chance to see it. I know the real thing when I see it - we used to see it all the time back in the day - and I hardly ever see it anymore. Growing up with films like 'Rambo', 'Die Hard', 'The Terminator' and 'Robocop', I can't stand that watered-down "no-blood-no-swearing" gutless kiddie fare that is being served as "action" these days. I'm 42 years old, I'm from Texas and I can take it. I'm going to be honest about this: I like unabashedly violent action films.
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