This was soooo good!

Rating: 9/10 (14 February 2015)

I could not believe how spectacular this movie was.
Despite it's similarities to X-men first class, Mathew Vaughn crafted a amazing film with better action and special effects.
Colin Firth plays a Bond-like distinguish gentlemen who recruits a new member to his club, Men in Black style, in order to face Samuel Jackson who plays a villain who made billions with technology and has a warp vision on how to use his money to "save the Earth"
The movie pokes fun on old school style 007 movies while being heavily influence by it. Like Vaughn points out, too many movies are in the trend of trying too hard to be real and Grimm, so Vaughn comes at you with something a little more fun and playful.
I thought it was going to suck cause they released it during the cold instead of waiting for warmer weather, but perhaps it was actually the R rating for words inappropriate for American languages.
And the violence was superb. Well choreographed like it was coming straight out of Hong Kong. Vaughn does some interesting things with the camera movement while the action takes place. Combined with a great score that complements the fight scenes.
Even though his act was more a parody, Samuel Jackson was up there with the best Bond villains, weaving a colorful archetype of a man who thinks he's doing what's best for the world in what turned out to be a very cleaver, over the top plot. Aided by a cool henchmen, with blades on her prosthetic limbs, it makes you wonder what would happen if he went heat-to-head with Roger Moore.
This movie surprised me. The action was top notched, it had an awesome villain, and a cool plot, and it was a humorous parody worthy of Austin Powers. Vaughn took what he learned from X-Men first class, added it to this movie, than dialed it up to eleven. Good Show!