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<Alex> Movie Review : Kingsman - The Secret Service (2015)

  • Alex Lin
  • Sep 18, 2017
  • 4 min read

"Kingsman: The Secret Service" is a british spy film released on the 24th of January, and it is also my favorite movie. It was directed by Matthew Vaughn - he is known for producing such films as Stardust (2007), the superhero comedy, Kick-Ass (2010), and the superhero film, X: First Class (2011). This interesting spy movie illustrated how a normal teenager "Eggsy"(Taron David Egerton) became a professional spy who served for a secret organization known as the Kingsman.

The main character, Eggsy, was an 21 year old college student whose father was also a agent of Kingsman, Eggsy's father died in a mission with Harry Hart (Eggsy's later mentor) and Merlin (Eggsy's later commander) when he was 5 years old. Kingsman gave Eggsy a mysterious card with a phone number for compensation and told him to call the number if something unsolvable happened. Several years later, Eggsy called the number because of some serious issue that can made him become imprisoned. A kingsman agent, Harry Hart , Eggsy's future mentor, then appeared and solved the problem.

Valentina (Left) and Gazelle (Right)

At the same time, a rich guy named Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) and his secretary Gazelle (Sofia Boutella) was planning to decrease the human population, he will later change the majority of the people in the world into extremely violent, barbaric animals that can actually destroy everything and even kill themselves by sending free SIM cards all over the world which can spread some sort of radiation to the person who use that phone. Valentina's purpose was to save human society from the pandemic like the overpopulation of our planet.

Kingsman agent Harry recommended Eggsy to participate in the selection competition. The final victor can become a kingsman spy and can get some benefits for his entire life. Later on, Eggsy joined the competition and started to train with Roxy (Sophie Cookson) and other contestants. He bested most of the people and reached the final (Eggsy VS Roxy). During the competition, Eggsy and Roxy established a good relationship and they always helped each other when something unlucky happened in the test or mission. This was also the reason why they were able to reached the final. But in the end, Roxy still defeated Eggsy.

Harry was angry after he knew Eggsy lost the game, and then he went on a mission. The mission was to investigate a church where Valentina did his SIM card experiment. The SIM card radiation made everyone in the church crazy and started killing each other.

Harry was the only survivor in the church, he killed everyone unconsciously. He was very upset and confused, he walked out of the church, and he saw Valentina and his fellow agents standing outside ready to kill him. If you are thinking Harry was going to escape in a impossible way, then you are wrong. Valentina shot him in his head, killing him instantly. Strangely enough, Valentina acted like he was uncomfortable to shoot Harry, doing so made him feel ill.

After Harry was dead, Valentina started to count down for his celebration (spreading the radiation and making the world a mess). Kingsman agent Merlin, Roxy and Harry's successor, Eggsy, went to Valentina's base to stop them. They used a fake identity so they were able to enter his base.

Before long, their real identity was revealed, Eggsy then has a fight with the guards there. Valentina noticed this event, so he started the party right away, he turned on the radiation, every one in the world began to fight each other like chaotic violent animals.

Because there were too many security guards, Eggsy was ready to be killed, at the same time, Merlin used his professional hacking skills to stop the SIM card radiation, he also turned on the self-explode system of the SIM card to blow every Valentina gang member's heads off. They could do this because the people who work for or cooperate with Valentina will be asked to insert a SIM card into their neck, so they won't be affected by the radiation.

Eggsy went straight into Valentina's operation room and had a quick fight with his secretary, Gazelle. Eggsy took a lot of effort to win the final battle. He finally killed the mastermind of all this chaos, he saved every innocent human being in the world, he was a hero.

"Kingsman" has been my favorite movie since I watched it, I really like the film setting, plot, and characters. This movie is not like the usual spy movies such as "007" or "Mission impossible" , The movie kept every single audience member engaged, and I'm sure people who really enjoy this will never take their eyes off the screen. I expected a lot in this movie, and the second episode is about to be released. Therefore, I definitely go watch it with my friends or family and write another review about it just like this one.

 
 
 

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