Hello everyone!
I'm finally back with the good old regular blog system, and since it's Tuesday it's time for me to talk about a movie, but first I figure I should probably tell you how I ended up watching it.
As several times before, my friends and I got together for a movie night, but originally, our choices didn't include the final thing. We were actually going to watch Expendables, but my friend's boyfriend changed the options right before that happened. So then he suggested Lucy, and we all nodded, and he said Kingsman, and my first comment (because my mouth sometimes runs away from my head) was 'OMG YES THAT MOVIE IS AMAZING!' which sealed the deal, or that's how I saw it.
Not one hundred percent sure all my friends are happy with me about that particular decision at the moment, haha, but I mean, what's done is done, right? In any event, Kingsman was the movie we ended up watching together, and honestly? In my opinion, it delivered.
The movie starts in the nineties, somewhere in the Middle East, where a group of agents are interrogating a suspected terrorist. In the process, he activates a grenade, one of the agents throws himself over the man, and they both die, but the rest live. One of them, Galahad by code name (played by the incomparable Colin Firth), offers his condolences to the man's widow and leaves behind a medal with a phone number and code words on it, just in case there would ever be any trouble.
Seventeen years later, the young boy has grown up, and Eggsy, as he's called by his friends, is a bit of a troublemaker. He's unemployed, although he has an outstanding IQ and even went in for training with the Royal Marines, but never completed it. He gets arrested after stealing a car, but calls the previously-mentioned phone number, and Galahad comes to the rescue. At this point, the Kingsman secret service is down one man and recruiting for a new Lancelot, so Galahad suggests Eggsy should enter. He's the only one who doesn't come from a privileged background, but easily makes friends with the two women, Roxy and Amelia. Their training (supervized by a Merlin) consists of nightly alarms, jumping out of planes, interrogation, training a puppy they chose (Eggsy manages to choose a pug, go figure), and other happy things like that which they have to endure, or get kicked out. In the end, it boils down to Eggsy and Roxy, but Eggsy fails because he can't bring himself to shoot his dog, even though lagter it's revealed that the bullet was a blank.
Galahad is disappointed, but he has bigger problems: a wealthy businessman has been handing out free SIM cards and phones around the world, and important people have been disappearing. It turns out that he wants to reduce the population by emmiting waves by the SIM cards that activate the emotional part of our brains, meaning the whole hate thing, and blocking our usual stop signals. Say, you think you want to hit someone, but you don't actually do it, because it's wrong. Well, a poor church in Kentucky finds out first hand how this works, Galahad among them as he goes completely out of control and kills everyone, ending with a bullet in his head as well, watched by Merlin, Arthur and Eggsy.
Eggy realizes Arthur has 'gone to the Dark side', so to speak, and manages to trick him by switching their glasses so that Arthur ends up dead, not Eggsy. Then he, Merlin and Roxy set out to stop the bad guy and his metal-legged sidekick (no, seriously, she has runner's legs but with sharp, blade-like points with which she kills people that stand in their way). Things don't quite go smoothly as the SIM cards are activated, but Eggsy does in the end manage to save the day, overheats the implants all the 'favourites' have in their heads which causes fireworks of explosions (not as messy as it sounds, it's actually quite amusing, as horrible as that is), and in a very great homage to James Bond, ends up in bed with a sexy Swedish princess.
All in all, this movie was enjoyable, as it's another comic book adaptation and a sequel is already in the works, they say. The characters were believable, but I was very surprised with the fact that Sir Michael Caine played the guy who goes bad instead of Mark Strong, who portrays Merlin, but usually plays the bad guys (he has that kind of face, I think). Samuel L. Jackson was hilariously badass with his lisp and inability to stomach blood. And Colin Firth made all the granddads in the world rethink their use of an umbrella! The names coming from Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table was a nice touch, as well. I would have definitely enjoyed seeing this on the big screen, but all the same, it was something I won't easily forget.
Also, I will NEVER look at fireworks in the same way again. EVER.
xx
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