Kingsman: The Secret Service
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: February 13, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
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31
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13
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6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The DissolveKeith PhippsFeb 12, 2015
The film never entirely figures out what it wants to do with the myth of the superspy, but at least it has fun along the way. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJan 27, 2015
Never less than slick, precision-tooled multiplex entertainment, Kingsman hews close to the formula Vaughn and his co-writer Jane Goldman established in their superficially similar "Kick-Ass": hyperspeed action, pithy one-liners and grotesque ultraviolence. Read full review
58
The Film StageNathan BartlebaughOct 2, 2017
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a modestly entertaining romp that will probably delight those who like to see a genre turned upside down so all its lunch-money lands on the ground, and purveyors of kinetic and no-holds barred gore will also get a treat. Read full review
50
ConsequenceJustin GerberOct 2, 2017
Director Matthew Vaughn’s latest film, Kingsman: The Secret Service, is an attempt at finding a balance somewhere between Austin Powers and James Bond that doesn’t quite succeed. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniFeb 18, 2015
On many levels, Kingsman has the makings of a sure-fire hit. Yet, this is one spy story even the most dedicated addicts of the genre would do well to miss. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiFeb 13, 2015
It sounds fun in theory, I guess, and there are some entertaining moments of rude irreverence here and there but the giddiness gets a bit tedious after a while. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 12, 2015
Mr. Firth gives his all, and then some. He’s very funny, even touching, when the material allows him to be. Yet the production, directed by Matthew Vaughn (“Kick-Ass,” “X-Men: First Class”) from a screenplay he wrote with Jane Goldman, can’t contain its centrifugal force. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 12, 2015
It tries to get by on charm, and like a lot of movies, and people who make that attempt, “Kingsman” does have charm — just not enough. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 11, 2015
As February comic book movies go, this works well enough to make you glad they didn’t cook up another “Ghost Rider.” Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneFeb 9, 2015
This is pitiful stuff, and, like the violence, it eats away at the blitheness for which Kingsman strives, leaving an aftertaste of desperation that the Connery of “Goldfinger,” say, would not have dreamed of bequeathing. The sadness is that Firth, alone in the film, does raise the spectre of those days, radiating a lightly amused reserve amid the havoc. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 12, 2015
The problem is that Mr. Vaughn has no interest in, or perhaps understanding of, violence as a cinematic tool. He doesn’t use violence; he squanders it. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFeb 11, 2015
Half amusing and half appalling, Matthew Vaughn’s shameless spy caper Kingsman: The Secret Service is ultimately done in by its own hypocrisy. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFeb 11, 2015
Yet for all Vaughn’s attention to stylized details, I noticed a number of obvious continuity errors throughout to which Vaughn seems blind. Read full review
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