Although flawed in different areas, the movie is still entertaining with action and an interesting concept—to transfer a dying man’s memory to a live person. Plus, the movie has an all-star cast: Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Costner , Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Pitt, Alice Eve, and Gal Gadot. To keep the action going, the story consists of a number of spy vs. spy vs. international gangster scenes, with always the possibility of mutually assured destruction (MAD). High level, the movie is about a poignant love story mixed in with the U.S. government held hostage by a hacker who has found the means to trigger powerful weapons.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service (a movie review)
This is a tongue-in-cheek explosive movie starring Colin Firth, Michael Caine, and superbad Samuel L. Jackson, who is always good as a villain because he seems to enjoy playing such roles. His enjoyment makes you intensely dislike him (in character of course), and in this film he is quite the psycho with a civilized façade. His assistant is an amputee with bladed prosthetic feet and furtive martial moves. Continue reading