The King’s man: First mission leaves us disoriented (review)
Matthew Vaughn returns to the origins of the Kingsman franchise with a prequel set during World War I. Amazing mix.
M6 benefits from the theatrical releaseArgyle to offer in plain language the prequel to Kingsmanfrom the same director Matthew Vaughn, This evening. Action and spy comedy, this one surprised First when it is released at the end of 2021. Here is our opinion.
The bubbling and punk spirit of Kingsman is it soluble in the darkness of the First World War? We will never really stop asking ourselves the question The King’s Man: First Missiona prequel to the franchise that tells us about the origins of the spy agency.
The story of a pacifist aristocrat, the Duke of Oxford (Ralph Fiennes), who opposes in the shadows a plot organized by the greatest criminal masterminds. Semi-serious subject – we are still witnessing the assassination of François-Ferdinand and the backstage of the Great War, totally “vaughnized” – for a film that struggles to marry the universe Kingsman and a very first degree spy story. Matthew Vaughn tries to balance the situation, alternating between jubilant fighting scenes and emotional sequences, which are much rarer in his cinema. But you have to move quickly, move the matter forward, show the creation of the Kingsman to close the loop, and these deviations are immediately defused in favor of situations and characters. bigger than life.
It’s sometimes wildly amusing when Rhys Ifans plays a disturbing, leg-licking, sex-obsessed Rasputin, much less so when the mysterious villain who holds the plot reveals his identity. We come out of The King’s Man: First Mission not unhappy – the entertainment keeps its promises and the casting is fabulous – but a little disconcerted, with the impression of having witnessed the merger of two films which refuse to dialogue with each other.
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