Wild!

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2015)

This film was way better than I thought. I thought it was going to be some goofy film only a child or someone with no taste in the art of cinema would enjoy. It was action packed, what I really like, and a bit funny at times. As for the hero, villain, gadgetry, and plot goes this film is kind of James Bondish but it has its many twists which makes it different from James Bond films. The characters in this film were great. Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) made for a pretty good villain, but Gary 'Eggsy' Unwin (Taron Egerton) wasn't really the hero that I expected. To me he was a little punk because he failed the last test in what would have made him a Kingsman. It wasn't because he didn't have the ability or didn't know how to complete the test it was simply because he let his feelings get in the way of becoming something way greater than what he was. Harry Hart / Galahad (Colin Firth) was the real hero of the film. He was wiser and played everything cool without being brash and flashy. In the opening scene I was excited to see Professor Arnold (Mark Hamill), being that I'm a preDisney Star Wars Fan. It was a big surprise for me to see Luke Skywalker appearing in another huge film like this one. My favorite character would have to be Gazelle (Sofia Boutella). She was literally a cut above the rest as far as villains go! I mean she was bad! Overall this is a great film. As I said before, it is kind of James Bondish. British secret service men who has their headquarters in a fake tailor shop who are fighting against a villain who is trying to take down the population in order to preserve the earth and at the same time detonating a chip in some of the world's leaders and elite's heads killing them. Now, their heads exploding was a nice touch in the film, but I didn't really care how everyone's heads exploded in sync with Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance". That was a bit far-fetched. Oh yeah, those of you who will enjoy or enjoyed seeing Barack Obama's head exploding, that's the only time you will see something like that ever happening to him, is in a highly fictional, highly fantasized two hours and nine minutes Adidas commercial.