Though it won’t hit theaters for another few weeks, critics are already crowning Kingsman: The Secret Service as a winner.
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Currently, the adaptation of Mark Millar’s Secret Service comic is pulling a 100% fresh rating on film review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregate score only comes from 15 reviews right now however, and will undoubtedly change as the film’s release date draws closer. But, those 15 reviewer do include opinions from top sources like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, TimeOut, and The Wrap.
Here’s what some of those critics are praising about Kingsman: The Secret Service.
For those who think James Bond has gotten a little too serious in his old age, “Kingsman: The Secret Service” brings the irreverence back to the British spy genre, offering a younger, streetwise variation on the 007 formula while gleefully pushing audiences’ favorite elements — sartorial taste, killer toys and cracked-out supervillains — to hyperbolic extremes. —Peter Debruge, Variety
As he did in X-Men: First Class, director Matthew Vaughn strikes an energetic balance between cartoonish action and character-driven drama, though the tinge here is darker, with a story that hinges on matters of climate change, the insidiousness of technology and the class divide.—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood ReporterNever less than slick, precision-tooled multiplex entertainment, ‘Kingsman’ hews close to the formula Vaughn and his co-writer Jane Goldman established in their superficially similar ‘Kick-Ass’: hyperspeed action, pithy one-liners and grotesque ultraviolence. —Tom Huddleston, TimeOut
Kingsman: The Secret Service is directed by Kick Ass and X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn. It adapts the Mark Millar-written comic series about a clandestine spy organization that must stop a global terrorist from unleashing Armageddon. It hits theaters on February 13th, 2015.