Are we going to stand here talking, or are we going to fight?

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2015)

The recipe for movie success; Take 1 part Ipcress File, 1 part Austin Powers, a dollop of Bond -- the Pierce Brosnan Bond, and a smidgeon of Charade; then blend, fold, and spindle in equal parts of The Manchurian Candidate and Arabesque. Cook over high heat for 2 1/2 hours, and watch your audiences come back for a second viewing. Make the villain a science fiction, black computer nerd billionaire -- a grown-up Urkel/Blankman if you will -- for the icing on the cake. Kingsman pushes all the right buttons for aficionados of 60s action/spy thrillers with all the up- to-date hilarity of Austin Powers. There's never a dull moment here.
This amazing film moves with the pacing of a Bond flick, and not without good reason. Political correctness spells doom for the Bond franchise as we know it, so this will be a series that can be milked for at least 20 sequels, and I will be sure to watch all of them. Even the product placements were funny. It's OK to laugh out loud at Kingsman.