Eighteen months late for your dinner......

Rating: 7/10 (5 May 2015)

Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, whose late father secretly worked for a spy organisation, lives in a South London housing estate and seems headed for a life of crime, and ultimately, prison.
However, dapper agent Harry Hart recognises potential in the youth and recruits him to be a trainee in the secret service.
Meanwhile, villainous Richmond Valentine launches a plan to solve the problem of climate change via a worldwide killing spree.......
The plot could come from any Bond Movie, or even Austin Powers, megalomaniac designs a free SIM card that when activated, causes homicidal tendencies, thus bringing down the worlds population. But when you read it in black and white, it's just too bizarre for Bond, and too dark for Powers, even though when watching this,you cannot help but compare spys.
Vaughn proved with his first movie, he is a competent film maker, and with this, he proves again that he hasn't put a step wrong.
It's a visceral experience, mixing working class with upper class, but once we get into the training, Goldman goes down the predictability route with the writing, so their are no surprises with this aspect of the narrative. The posh boys and Eggsy have the obligatory confrontation, the leader of the posh boys gets his comeuppance, and as expected,MIT isn't plain sailing for our hero.
But that's just a minor quibble in what otherwise is a highly original spy movie, with some awe inspiring set pieces (the church scene is up there with John Wicks Club scene as one of the cinematic highlights of the year), and the characters are brilliantly portrayed.
Firth is brilliant as a bad-ass version of himself, Jackson is hilarious as the pseudo Steve Jobs, and even Mark Strong excels as what only can be described as the films Yoda to Firths Obi Wan.
The controversy of the final 'joke' is justified, and although it's supposed to be a parody of all those innuendo laden Bond final scenes, it falls flat and leaves you with a bitter taste, slightly detracting you from what otherwise is a truly brilliant movie.
So it's well worth seeing, it's so good to see such a daring, original blockbuster do so well, among the ever increasing pond of autonomous blockbusters that swarm the cinemas nowadays....