The “Kingsman” series is perhaps our weirdest ongoing popular franchise.
Matthew Vaughn’s sleek adaptations of the obscenely violent Mark Millar comics turned a misanthropic send-up of the gentleman spy thriller into star-studded entertainment whose flashy action sequences made you overlook how secretly conservative it is.
(The Big Bad villains of the first movie were environmentalists!)So what happens when you take the “spy” part out of the spy movie, in a prequel story that chronicles the creation of this super secret spy service that operates out of a posh tailor shop? Something that’s a cross between a somber war movie and…The post The King’s Man Review: The Kingsman Prequel Maketh for a Brutal and Bizarre War Movie appeared first on /Film.
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