Ultra-violent spoof for the video game generation

Rating: 3/10 (6 April 2015)

Based on some comic book (another one) this is the tale of the initiation of a teen (I suppose) into a British secret service organization.
The reason why I went to see this thing in the cinema is because I loved "Kick-Ass", also from director Vaughn. That movie was also very violent but the crazy concept, a shy high school boy and a 11 -year old girl fighting crime, made it work.
The next installment from Vaughn starts off well, largely thanks to Colin Firth as the mentor. Just until halfway into the movie when Firth character is offed, during the now infamous church scene (extremely violent even for this kind of movie), we're stuck with this 'new kid' for the rest of the movie. As this actor has basically zero charisma it's all downhill from that point. The whole thing simply turns into this violent video game style catastrophe with our 'hero' having to invade the bad guys fortress, in doing so killing dozens and dozens of his henchmen, not to mention exploding heads and a certain Swedish princess.
This ultimately pretty sicko movie will be largely appreciated by a late teen/early twenty audience, not only due to the R-rating but as they simply are the target audience for this: brain dead geeks addicted to ultra-violent video games. If you do not fall into this category : do yourself a favor and avoid this like the plague.