An adjective I don't use much these days..

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2015)

Exhilarating. There, said it. I enjoyed KickAss, i enjoyed Xmen First Class. I know Matthew Vaughan is a solid director. I still had no idea that this was going to be SO good. I cannot find fault with it from the audacious opening credits ( compare it with say Tommorowland and you will see how joyously this leaps through a glass darkly compared the pallid Disney or marvel universe type dreck.) i fully expect a sequel and DEMAND it in fact as long as mr Vaughan is still at the helm. who would have thought, genre tropes subverted , astonishing and electric ultra-violence, great acting.. perfect effects.. and, oddly perhaps, quite moving at times. At last a film that not only met but exceeded expectation and that is a wonderful surprise when we are being saturated with endless and homogenous superhero fare. i am so bored with Marvel so thankyou Matthew and Jane Goldman for reinvigorating and, it can justifiably be said, reinventing the Gentleman Spy for this jaded appetite. I was uplifted and for that you have my enormous respect. kudos :)