![]() There are sweet moments of character interplay - Firth, Strong and Egerton make a fine team - and it’s nice to see Eggsy’s fiancée, a Swedish princess (Hanna Alström), playing more than the butt of a cheap sex joke.īut these moments rest uneasily alongside the movie’s nasty, smirking asides and bizarrely straight-faced main plot, which involves a corrupt White House and a scheme to end the war on drugs by wiping out anyone who’s ever used one of Poppy’s illegal substances. More than once, an unlucky henchman gets shoved into a giant meat grinder operated by Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore), a smiling drug lord who exports her wares from a Cambodian jungle compound. Showing Eggsy and Merlin some Southern hospitality are Jeff Bridges as Statesman’s leader Champagne, Channing Tatum as Agent Tequila, Halle Berry as the tech expert Agent Ginger Ale, and Pedro Pascal as Agent Whiskey. covert organization housed in a Kentucky whiskey distillery. The hook here is a match-up between the Savile Row suits of Kingsman and the cowboy hats of Statesman, an equivalent U.S. Despite its frenzied cloak-and-dagger-on-crack shenanigans, this “Kingsman” feel simultaneously hyperactive and lazy. English writer-director Matthew Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman have translated Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ comic-book series into another brutally irreverent James Bond pastiche. ![]()
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