Matthew Vaughn has made yet another amazing film

Rating: 10/10 (3 February 2015)

My brother had told me about this a month or two before it was to come out and I watched the trailer and found myself really looking forward to the film. I love action films and the fact that my brother had described it as "Alex Rider but better" set my hopes pretty high and I was not disappointed.
Matthew Vaughn is a great director and it is an unspoken rule in my house that if "Stardust" is on TV, we must watch it and I also loved "Kick Ass". This film had the slight gore of the latter, which is fine by me since I've always watched films like that, and the characters and aspects that don't turn out to be how they look on the surface. In my opinion, the perfect balance has been achieved between comedy, violence, action and even tragedy/seriousness. The actors used are amazing in their parts and it is a star studded cast of Michael Cain, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson and Mark Strong but I think that Taron Egerton gives an amazing film debut performance.
I've read some reviews where it has been described as "laddish" and brash but what else can you expect from a 15 rated spy film based on teenager from South London? In fact, Eggsy's contrast to the typical gentleman spy is what makes this film so good. We need more films that are like this one and push boundaries on the genres that we are used to.
I came out of the cinema desperate to talk about it with my friends but none of them have seen it so I will have to think about how good it is by myself. It is also the first film that I have come out of cinema desperate to actually buy a copy of the film.