Stories: a group of some of the worst tyrants and criminal pouter versified to trigger a big war that will remove millions of people from all over the world.
It’s up to Orlando, Duke of Oxford (Ralph Fiennes), to stop them in time.
And also find the first independent intelligence agency in the world.
Reviews: After ‘Kingsman: Secret Services’ (2014) and ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ (2017), producer-director Matthew Vaugh back with the prequel on events that lead to Kingsman’s establishment.
The film began in a concentration camp in 1902 where Orlando, his wife Emily (Alexandera Maria Lara) and the visit of their son’s son while working for the Red Cross.
However, the sudden Sniper Boer attack in the camp saw Emily dead, leading Pacifist Orlando to work towards wardingout such conflicts.
Twelve years later, when he had recruited his two staff, Pollyanna Wilkins alias Polly (Gemma Carterton) and Shola (Djimon Hounsou) into his eyes, Orlando forbade Conrad (Harris Dickinson) from joining the Army as a great war approach.
While it is an interesting thought to make a prequel about what caused Kingsman’s establishment, someone could not say the same about the scenario with the World War I withered.
Unlike the first two films, carefully, take a spy genre, with a good sequence of actions and a good dose of humor, this one tries to balance by being a conventional war drama at the same time.
On the plus side, Vaughn redeemed a strange blend of spy thriller genres and drama wars with several interesting characters, especially Grigori Rasputin (Rhys Ifans), a mystic who has a big influence on Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, Erik Jan Hanussen (Daniel Brühl), an Austrian who was associated with Adolf Hitler, and the eyes of the day (Valerie Pachner) was a Dutch exotic dancer and also German spy during that time.
Don’t forget, keep the main criminals of the story, the shepherd, in the dark until the climax scene when he faces a face with Orlando at his headquarters on the steep iceberg.
Action, according to the franchise.
These, both Orlando, Conrad, Shola and Polly fight with Rasputin, the order of war, or a climax battle between Orlando and Shepherd, the mastermind behind England, Germany and Russia move in a big war.
Fiennes provides a good performance as a Duke of Oxford, while ifans is fantastic as the Mystic Monk Rasputin.
Arterton, Hounsou, Dickinson, Tom Hollander (as the King of George of England, Kaiser Wilhem from Germany and Tsar Nicholas from Russia) both in their part.
Even though my World War doesn’t seem to match the Kingsman universe, ‘The King’s Man’ is an attractive watch.
And go with a glimpse of Vladimir Lenin (August Diehl) and Adolf Hitler (David Kross) on the final credit, it seems that Vaughn is contemplating entering World War II on the second prequel of a friendly and sophisticated spy franchise.
Movies: The King’s Man-3/5
