Gory and Witty

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2015)

A witty spy movie that is highly watchable.
Colin Firth and Taron Egerton are excellent co-stars, playing private agents pitted against a mad environmentalist played by Samuel L Jackson.
The plot ticks along nicely. It is very light-hearted in feel and full of witty one-liners.
They play on this lightness cleverly by interspersing the movie with scenes of horrific gore and violence. It's an unnerving mix but they make it work. Colin Firth's massacre of a church congregation in particular is hard to forget.
Overall a good bit of escapist, gory, witty fun.