Kingsman: The Secret Service film review

Kingsman is an outrageously sophisticated action film tailored for those who have affinity for the James Bond films. It is a joyride that borders on the ridiculous, and Colin Firth is impeccable as the well suited espionage Kingsman, Harry Hart.

With a comedic twist to the Bond like villain, philanthropist Valentine, played by the always sexy motherfucker, Samuel L. Jackson, hatches a nefarious plot to population control, and plans to use technological advancements  against humanity, the Kingsman must not only train new spies, but stop Valentine before it is too late.

Watching the film in Dbox (a motion sensor seat that vibrates like a roller coaster) the experience of the action scene were intensified.  If you can afford and can handle motion seats I would recommend Dbox.  There was a particularly visceral and cerebral church scene that played out like a video game, and which was the highlight of the film as a whole.

My only complaint about the film transpires in the third act, when the main character, Eggsy - played by newcomer Taron Egerton - is propositioned by a captured princess to be saved.  She tells him if he saves her she would be willing to let him fuck her in the ass.  

My issue here is the exaggeration of both gender expression.  First, a woman who feels compelled to offer sex in exchange for safety, and second, a young man is, as is often the case in films like these, rewarded with sex to saving a woman.  

The fact that it is also not just sex, but anal sex propels this story into a taboo space of sexuality displayed in film.  One thing must be known, the MPAA rating system is completely flawed.  Male sexual expression - including anal sex that adds absolutely nothing to the plot of the film - is in most cases given a R rating, but when when a film shows a woman enjoying sexual pleasure that is imperative to the film's plot, it is almost always given an NC-17.  

It irked me that I was able to enjoy the Kingsman up until the very end.  I was sorely disappointed that once again, a gratuitous scene that does nothing, but create another patriarchal distortion on a decent film, was added in when it didn't need it.  There is nothing new or fresh about using a female's body to appeal to a young boy's imposed libido.  I hate it, and find it disgusting that films continue to write the scripts that young adults use to navigate through relationships.  

However, having said that, Kingsman was still fun, and I really appreciated the female assassin named Gazzelle, who had weaponized prosthetic legs.  She was fierce and strong, and completely fun to watch.  Kingsman is probably the lesser of evils given some disturbing films like Fifty Shades of Grey and The boy Next Door, are in theaters as well.