Kingsman: The Secret Service

I was very excited to see Kingsman: The Secret Service because the director, Matthew Vaughn pleased me with his previous work, such as Kick-Ass. Both are based of graphic novels by Mark Millar, too. I will say, this had a good beginning. I loved the introduction to all of the tough but classy main characters. I also enjoyed the stylized violence, as I always do. There were some great ideas, but I felt that, overall, it only catered to one side of me. It was full of crazy action, hilarious comedy, explosions, and one scene where a character did what we all kind of refuse to accept that we sort of want to do too. Which I loved, but I'd have enjoyed more interesting subjects too. I wanted to explore more of our protagonist's family life, which wasn't good. I also wanted to explore the incredibly awesome villain, played by Samuel L. Jackson. He had an assistant who had metal prosthetic legs with blades on them, which was cool and one of the redeeming factors of the movie. I can't say it wasn't a whole lot of fun to watch her jump around and duel suit-wearing umbrella-wielding British spies. I can say that's what's good about Kingsman. It's enjoyable and very entertaining but I only really liked that. Everything else was uninteresting. Kick-Ass was good because is was stylish and violent, but we also got to focus on the protagonist's struggle to try and be special, and to be a hero. Kingsman was just like any other action-blockbuster, with just a little bit more style to make it slightly better. C+