Surprisingly bad given the cast and budget

Rating: 2/10 (7 January 2018)

Another of those movies I am glad I did not waste my money on (saw it on ITV last night) and if I had not had the flu and needed something to do to while away a couple of hours I would resent the waste of the time.
Where to begin to try to make sense of the mess that it all seemed to me. Having also seen Spectre last weekend (again thanks ITV) comparisons are inevitable. Sadly, the Kingsman comes nowhere close either as some kind of comic book to film parody or attempt to "re-invent" this long-established genre (that does not need it on the strength of Spectre).
Others have picked out the worst excesses of this movie so no need to repeat them here suffice to say none of these I found entertaining - and after all, is that not the point of a movie? And while it has extreme violence (yes, really off the scale) and f-bombs aplenty mostly c/o Samuel L, the only nudity was tacked on at the end in such a slipshod tawdry way I watched the credits in disbelief.
The Bond films got it right more times than wrong, Kingsman never came close. Now there is a sequel but thanks to ITV I shall not be visiting the theatre to see that nor paying for a download. Do yourself a favour: instead of watching this travesty and insult to your intelligence, dig out an old Roger Moore Bond film and see a master at work.