A sorry parody of Bond movies spiced up with senseless mayhem

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2019)

Kingsman is a mishmash of 007 (of the cheesy type with P. Brosnan or R. Moore starring), inspector gadget and any of Tarantino's mindless gore-fests. Its target audience is pre-teen white boys. It's not a movie that a normal adult -including those action lovers- can sit through its entire length. Indeed, I was doing something else while watching it with the corner of my eye. Once, my job was finished after 2 hours of TV time -including commercials, I tuned the channel somewhere else, so I don't know how the story ended nor do I care.
A lot of reviewers complain about the violence. It's true that the movie is loaded with senseless blood and gore however, its presentation is so puerile that you can't really take it seriously. Take the 10 min long carnage in the church scene, for example. Everything looks so comically surreal and artificial, that it makes you shake your head instead of cringing and looking away. I don't know why Colin Firth, S. Jackson and M. Cain star in this travesty. One would think actors of their stature would be more selective with the quality of the movies they act in, no matter how much they are compensated for. On the other hand, the two lead characters are so lame and fluffy that no amount of heavy weight actor can put the story on its feet.