Saving the World by Killing All of Its Inhabitants

Rating: 6/10 (9 March 2017)

After his father is killed in the service of his country, "Eggsy" (Taron Egerton) lives with his mother and her low-class boyfriend with little opportunity for upward mobility. However, he still holds onto a locket given to him as a young boy with an advisement to call an inscribed number if he ever needs serious help. So one day after fighting off some local bullies and being subsequently arrested for stealing the gang member's car he makes the call. To his surprise he is immediately released and the charges are all dropped. It's then that he learns that his father was a member of a clandestine organization in the British government known as the "Kingsman" and he is encouraged to join. However, it isn't nearly as easy to graduate from the program as he would like and he watches as the other people selected begin to drop out one by one. Meanwhile, a crazed billionaire by the name of "Richmond Valentine" (Samuel L. Jackson) who has come up with a plan to save the world from greenhouse gasses by killing almost all of the people who inhabit it. And with very few agents available to investigate Eggsy is called upon to help out before everything and everyone is killed. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an interesting movie which raced from one exciting scene to the next in a very smooth manner. Unfortunately, the director (Matthew Vaughn) chose to take the low-road and utilized an over-abundance of vulgarity for the sake of some cheap laughs much too often. And most of it was simply unnecessary. In any event, this grew rather tiring after awhile and seriously limited the movie's overall appeal. But even so it was still entertaining to a certain degree and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.