Full of Clichés, mediocre CGI, bad catchphrases and what not. But god, it's awesome.

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2015)

I watched this movie because i saw the making of one of the best fighting scenes in the past 22 years. And that is because i haven't lived any longer. Imagine my surprise when i was greeted by some mediocre looking CGI explosions, titles and landscapes in the first few opening minutes. Since mediocre CGI has taken over modern movies i was afraid it would be another one of these blockbuster blow-out movies which will be forgotten in about three weeks (which did turn out to happen, but more on that later) that have come out the past decade. It had a lot of action movie clichés, some toe curling one-liners and a standard action movie plot. "But why did i give it a 8/10?" i hear you ask. Well, let me explain.
This movie is just plain awesome. Remember the old days, when an action hero fights one villain and explosions ensue? Where the villain gets too close to the protagonist and battle commences a couple of minutes later? Where there is a villain that genuinely believes in his own purpose and is charming and persuasive, instead of that modern day whiny and sad? Yes, i am talking about the 80's, where some appalling summer blockbusters came from, but where the actual birth of true action heroes was. I wasn't yet born back then, but i genuinely believe that that was wad made a awesome movie. I adore this movie as i did a film like "demolition man" when i first saw it.
But back to this movie. It breathes every action hero ever in existence, every villain in existence and every bond-ripoff ever in existence. Of course I had to pull the old JB in here (even the movie mentioned JB) but as i see it, anyone that is used to the sludge that was draining from Hollywoods sewers the past decade only sees that because it is a spy movie with a couple of British leading characters. It shows a rather poor sense of movies if you hold it against this movie.
The only thing that generally annoyed me was that Samuel L. Jackson spoke the entire movie with a severe lisp. I do not know if that's Jacksons real-life problem, or if it a character trait of the main villain Valentine, but it was exceptionally annoying. If it is some kind of physical problem, i am deeply sorry, and i will not say "what" one more time. Best villain performance ever, though.
This films has some problems. But it is the old-school bad-*** action that brings it in my "top 10 of the past decade" list as a nice second. It has only five spots taken now. And the first is still empty. So i hope this new flow of 80's style action movies keeps coming and gives me my number one. Nice try for the Kingsmen now.