Good Fun

Rating: 7/10 (22 February 2015)

Secret Service Agent, Harry Hart (Colin Firth), visits the wife of a fallen agent, with a view to presenting her with a bravery medal. However, she is not feeling very sociable and snaps at him, which results in Hart giving the medal to her son Eggsy (Alex Nicolov). Hart points out a phone number engraved on the back of the medal an tells Eggsy mother to use it and tells her the coded message she should use.
The movie then jumps some seventeen years, and sees another agent, Lancelot(Jack Davenport), killed by a female assassin known as Gazelle(Sofia Boutella), who works for the billionaire (Richmond Valentine (Samuel L Jackson). Meanwhile, Eggsy (Taron Egarton) is finding life hard, living with his mother, young half sister and nasty stepfather.
Despite having many qualities, Eggsy feels disillusioned and opts out of his training with the Royal Marines. He ends up being arrested for car theft and rings the number on his medal, which finds him being released. Standing outside the police station is Hart, who invites Eggsy to a local pub for a drink. Hart tells Eggsy about a secret organisation known as Kingsman that he and Eggsy's father worked for. Hart informs Eggsy that Kingsman have a vacancy for a new agent to fill the space left by Lancelot. After dispatching several thugs with his umbrella, Hart takes Eggsy to their training headquarters, where he is greeted by Merlin (Mark Strong) and several other potential candidates. Eggsy fails his final test, which results in him leaving Kingsman and a girl named Roxy (Sophie Cookson), being made a fully fledged agent. However, Eggsy returns to Kingsman and discovers the leader Arthur (Michael Caine, as been secretly working for Valentine. Eggsy, together with Roxy and Merlin, then feel obliged to go and shake things up at Valentines secret hide out.
The Kingsman is an action movie directed by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Kick Ass, X Men: First Class, Stardust). The movie takes you into a gadget filled make believe secret service organisation. The sets are quite impressive as are the weapons and gadgets. The movie will undoubtedly appeal to the fan of the Bond movie.