Parody fun ride of the spy genre, but doesn't leave me stirred

Rating: 4/10 (14 October 2017)

I've only just watched this graphic book adaption, and the first thing you notice when you come on this site is the large gap between the general viewers' rating (a very high 7.7) against the metracritic rating (a lowly 6). I can't think of any other film off the top of my head which as polarising, but I side fully with the critics on this one.
I'd already read the graphic novel many years back, and wasn't a fan but still believed it could make a fun film. This film takes the humour, and is basically spy film in the Kick-Ass mould, but it doesn't work for me. I just couldn't find myself interested in the characters, albeit excepting the two acted by Colin Firth and Sofia Boutella, and if anything it was too much of a parody.
It's a fine line when you make a parody to go too far and lose interest, and that for me happens here. There's cliché and so on, but the worst part is Samuel L Jackson as the villain, who really has his worst performance and role I've yet seen from him, didn't even need to make an effort.
The action scenes are excellent, I'll give them that, and like Kick-Ass they are very violent. That's the only interesting point for me.
I'll leave it at that. Maybe worth watching if on the TV on a Saturday or Sunday night, otherwise give a miss. Some will really enjoy it, but I wasn't one of them. It's possible like many others, I'm now just tired of the comic book genre.