Another enjoyable spy movie spoof

Rating: 8/10 (8 February 2015)

One thing about movies set in London is that they tend to grab a part of me that reminds me of the times that I have visited the city. In a way I feel a stronger connection with London now that I have been there than I have in times past. However, while most of the movie is set in London, we are taken to other places, such as the secluded hideout of the arch villain, though unlike many of the other spy movies that I have seen, Kingsmen does not take you to all that many exotic places (actually it doesn't take you to any).
It's not a bad film, and in fact it is quite enjoyable. The premise is that there is a secret organisation that is not connected to any particular government which enables it to act in the interests of humanity as opposed to any particular nation or political party. The Kingsmen are top secret, meaning that the only time anybody ever hears of them is when they are born, get married, and die. In fact their operations, even the successful ones, do not even make it into the newspapers (though it is interesting that the newspaper that is referred to is The Sun, which I suspect isn't one of those newspapers that anybody should really pay any attention).
As with any spy movie, we have an arch villain with a diabolical plan to remake the world in his own image, and it is up to the Kingsmen to stop him. However this is where their independence comes into play because this particular villain has his fingers in an awful of lot pies. Mind you, even though we aren't supposed to like the villain, this particular one was downright annoying. I guess it was the nature of the film though because while it is not satire in the traditional sense, it is still a spoof.
Kingsmen focuses around a young drop out named Egsy, who happens to be the son of another Kingsman that was killed in action when he was a baby. More recently another Kingsman is killed in action, which opens up a spot, meaning that the remaining ones bring in potential candidates, and thus we have the candidates attempting to pass the tests as a team, and also excelling so that they are chosen. This is where I had a bit of some difficulty with the film because it seemed as if they were trying to cram too much into the film, and it seemed to jump from the plot where they were trying to track and outsmart the villain to the training. It wasn't until the training came to an end that the film actually began to flow a lot better.
As I said, this is a spoof of the James Bond movies, and it quite amusing in parts, however there were problems, and as I said, the arch villain really, really annoyed me.