Downright brilliant

Rating: 9/10 (7 August 2015)

I think it's fair to say you either love or hate this film. The wife was on Facebook within the hour, and I ended up watching it in another room as she found the violence too gratuitous.
However, I loved it! By all accounts, I should hate Colin Firth with his overly upper-class British accent. But he really holds this film together. I do wonder what it would have been like without him.
I knock a star off because I did get annoyed with some of the accents (the cockney barrow-boy levels were turned up to 11). Eggsy's trainee compatriots were far too predictably nasty as well.
The villains concept worked for me, although you do have to "go with it" a fair bit. I don't believe the film takes itself too seriously, so neither should the viewer.
I think a good acid test of a film is if you'd want to watch it again... And I have. There's one scene in particular worth a second watch. Those that have seen it will know which one I mean! Watch it!