The King's Man
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: December 22, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
22
Negative:
10
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38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 20, 2021
Careening wildly from the black comedy tone of the aforementioned sequences to deadly serious World War I battle scenes, from somber spy thriller to broad comedy, The King’s Man has little of the wickedly outrageous and subversive style of the original film as it flies this way and that and never sticks the landing. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 18, 2021
King’s Man doesn’t send up the tragic comedy of the start of The Great War, doesn’t rewrite history in any particularly interesting, illuminating or entertaining way. It just gets stuck in the mud, like the millions whose lives were squandered in it. Read full review
35
Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerDec 23, 2021
The King’s Man is an off-putting installment in a series that should have already ended. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyChristian HolubDec 14, 2021
But for all its faults, The King's Man is at least hilariously bad in the way that emotionless, made-by-committee blockbusters like Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are not. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreDec 22, 2021
The real sin of The King’s Man is its near-total lack of fun. Read full review
30
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganDec 14, 2021
It’s an understatement to say that The King’s Man has a weird, unsettling, tone. Read full review
30
Screen RantMolly FreemanDec 14, 2021
The King's Man is a joyless prequel to Kingsman, devoid of the charming offbeat comedy and pulse-pounding action scenes that made this franchise fun. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 20, 2021
So, The King’s Man is a mess, purposeless, pointless, witless. However, it’s not obnoxious. At times, it can even be close to enjoyable watching it squirm and try to make sense of itself. It has a genial idiocy and one genuinely effective sequence, involving mountain climbing. So, to its credit, it’s never actively annoying. It’s just, from start to finish, a disappointment. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDerek SmithDec 14, 2021
The film is so caught up in its own idea of national exceptionalism that its tagline might as well be Make England Great Again. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerDec 22, 2021
All the broad humor of the original film is gone, replaced by clunky and often tasteless gags, and the attempts to extract pathos from genuine tragedies vary from tacky to insulting. Read full review
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