If you know what you're signing on for, you'll love it. If you don't, why are you going to see this?

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2015)

Here's what trend I am noticing with these reviews. With rare exceptions, it's getting either a 1/10 or a 10/10, which means for this movie to have a stellar 8/10 IMDb score, for every one person that gives it a bad review, four people have to give it a perfect review. This is a rough calculation obviously, but it's actually important to my review. Instead of looking at this as, 4/5 people liked this movie, I look at this as everyone who likes this genre of movie, liked this movie. Now, why do I make such a claim? Read the negative reviews. Every review is about how there is too much violence or the plot being over the top. What did you expect walking into this. Look at the rating and the reasons for the rating. Watch the trailer. Read one review for the movie. Watch the other movies by this director. Take your pick. These are all indicative of what the movie was actually like. These reviews are basically akin to "I didn't like the Avengers because there was too many superheroes." I'm not implying you should know every little thing about every movie you see, but shouldn't you at least know the general idea of what you're getting into? Ranting aside for how people don't educate themselves before spending their money, if you like these types of movies, you'll adore this one. I'm beating a dead horse, but it's a British Kick A**. Plain and simple. It's unique, quirky, humorous, enjoyable, and fun. They do a great job of mixing action with comedy, much like the aforementioned title. Honestly, I laughed more during this than any comedy movie I've seen in years. I'd prefer to keep this review entirely spoiler free, so I won't be giving any examples of witty lines or particularly memorable action sequences, but believe me, they exist.
There were so many unexpected bright points from the movie as well. Samuel L. Jackson's character was beyond amazing. I certainty didn't see that coming. The plot, although indeed over the top, was extremely clever at certain points in the movie. There's some predictable twists, but a lot of the interview test scenes were handled very cleverly. The whole British twist on the movie added something fresh as well. As someone who generally doesn't personally like British movies or even the culture (no offense intended, just not my cup of tea...pun intended), I found it to be a welcome theme for this particular movie.
There were a few tiny grievances I had, however. They probably didn't need to swear as much as they did, but that's just a personal preference and not anything actually wrong with the movie. I also thought the music wasn't that great. Maybe I'm spoiled from Kick-A**'s, well...kick-a** soundtrack, especially during fight scenes, but I wasn't feeling it for this movie. The universal complaint I seem to see in these reviews that I'll agree with too is the gratuitous last three seconds of the movie. It was kind of demeaning and added nothing to the movie. But(t...another pun? :) ), we all know why it was there. Sex sells. There's not much you can do about that at this point.
All in all, if you liked Kick-A**, you WILL like this movie. If you like stylized action, you'll like this movie. If you like James Bond, you'll probably like this movie. If you like unique movies, you'll like this movie. If you're easily offended by excessive violence, you will not like this movie. It's, for the most part, not even that gory; just violent. It's as simple as that.