Wick's Review

Summary - Really Great 4.5

The King’s Man was sprung on an unsuspecting world in late 2021, at once familiar and head-scratching. Why would the third Kingsman have a new cast led by Ralph Fiennes? In the event, all became clear. The King’s Man is the prequel to Kingsman I & II. Make that the ultimate prequel, the Kingsman of prequels.

Set during World War I, it lays the predicate we didn’t know we needed, but were thrilled to receive. Please do a WWII episode! This “original” Kingsman crew would be awesome working for Churchill’s Britain.

Now that that sequel request has been made, let’s revisit the later chapters that came out earlier.

1. The Kingsman: The Secret Service was tremendously entertaining, very sordid and so very sleek.
2. Kingsman: The Golden Circle was a fully-realized exercise in high style, low blows, expensive tricks and lots of big laughs.

Acting - Great 4.0

Kingsman Crew

• Ralph Fiennes as the Duke of Oxford.
• Gemma Arterton as Polly Watkins / Galahad
• Djimon Hounsou as Shola / Merlin
• Matthew Goode as Captain Maximilian “Max” Morton / The Shepherd:
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Lance Corporal Archie Reid / Lancelot: A soldier with whom Conrad switches places.

Villians & Such

• Rhys Ifans is terrific as an übermensch Rasputin.
• Tom Hollander as King George / Percival, Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas, the respective rulers of Britain, Germany and Russia.
• Daniel Brühl as a big time bad guy.
• Charles Dance as Herbert, Lord Kitchener: The Irish-born British Secretary of State for War.

Film - Perfect 5.0

Edge - Sordid 3.1

Reality - Supernatural 3.5

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