The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Based on a comic book, Kingsman occasionally betrays its roots but Vaughn has adapted it to fit his unique approach.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
13 Feb 2015
fresh:
Frequently reactionary, bordering on retrograde, bordering on reprobate. But it's also a tremendous amount of fun.
– Christopher Orr,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb 2015
fresh:
Camping it up, Jackson is hilarious.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
20 Feb 2015
rotten:
Any sense of triumph is purely at the level of stuntcraft. The rest feels less than the sum of the moving parts.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
20 Feb 2015
fresh:
On Day One of filming, they must have thrown away the moral compass and taken a group vow to splatter our sensibilities with stylish, gratuitous violence and one "Wait, what?!" moment after another.