Smart genre riffs and hyper-stylized action, Kingsman: The Secret Service manages to provide a clever twist on the spy movie format.
After losing his father at a young age, Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton) grows into a troublesome (albeit highly intelligent) South London twenty year-old – with a strong desire to protect the people he loves but no clear direction in his own life. Eggsy spends the majority of his days with a chip on his shoulder, defying authority figures, and blaming stuffy aristocrats for the death of his dad, believing that silver spoon politicians callously sent Lee Unwin into military combat with no concern for his safety (or the potential ramifications).
However, unbeknownst to Eggsy, his father was actually a member of the Kingsman – a privately funded spy …
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