The King's Man
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
- Released: 2021-12-22
- Runtime: 131 minutes
- Genre: Action, Thrillers, War
- Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, Charles Dance, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stanley Tucci, Robert Aramayo, Ross Anderson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Neil Jackson, Alison Steadman, Martin Razpopov, Chloé Booyens, Albert Giannitelli, Olivier Richters, Branka Katić, Katarina Martin, Constantine Gregory, Todd Boyce, Maja Simonsen, Stevee Davies, Hal Fowler, Connor Calland, Kya Garwood, Renars Latkovskis, Jack Cunningham-Nuttall, Alexander Shaw, Bevan Viljoen, Shaun Scott, Andrew Bridgmont, Valerie Pachner, Joel Basman, Todd Boyce, Ron Cook, Barbara Drennan, August Diehl, Nigel Lister, Ian Kelly, David Calvitto, Emun Elliott, David Kross, Rosie Goddard, Dora Davis, Pippa Winslow, Dolores Carbonari, Amy Leeson, Will Pattle, Felix Mosse, Remus Brooks, Timothy Blore, Timon Staehler, Cory Stuckey, Gwithian Evans, Ben Ayers, Cassidy Little, James Backway, Alexander Cobb, Simon Connolly, Ian Porter, Hal Hillman, Tim Bruce, Stefan Schiffer, Kristian Nekrasov, Russell Balogh, Ed Cooper Clarke, Nigel Pilkington, Daniel Vernan, Andrey Andreev, Nina Novich, Fiz Marcus, Alyona Kazarova, Ronja Haugholt, Vår Haugholt, Gabriel Constantin, Gabriela Całun, Aaron Vodovoz, James Musgrave, Thomas Mahy, Jed O'Hagan, Angus Castle-Doughty, Molly McGeachin, Lucia Jade Barker, Alexander Shefler, Alexa Povah, George Gooderham, Emil Oksanen, Max Count, Benedick Blythe, Andy Cheung, Terence Anderson, Thorston Manderlay, Takako Akashi, Richard Stephenson Winter, Shaun McKee, Peter York, Andrey Andreev
- Director: Matthew Vaughn
Comments
- dc-rogers - 12 January 2023
Enough of the portrayal of our heritage as bad
Anyone else had it up to here with the re writing of our past. We brought the Industrial Revolution to the world and ended slavery.
I thought better of Vaughn guess I was wrong.
Anyhoo if you can get passed 'the message' it's entertaining enough for an evening.
God save the King!
I'd don't have anything more to say but have to meet the character limit. So just think about what else you could be doing other than reading this.
Set a plan in motion to get the girl/guy you really like. Or if you already have that already perhaps get into baking or carpentry. Maybe try a rave, rock concert or grime night.
Good luck to you. - lucluv - 10 December 2022
What a dud.
The first two Kingsmen movies were quirky, fun and did not take themselves too seriously. Everything was sort of "over the top" and that's what made them so entertaining.
This prequel, The King's Man, took itself way too seriously. It started off slow and went downhill from there. It attempted to meld itself into real world history, from the Boer War up through World War I, coming up with fictitious causes behind real historic events. It did not do it very cleverly and was a bit muddled in the end.
The relationship between Orlando Oxford and his son, Conrad, has none of the charm, camaraderie and banter that was found between Harry and Eggsy in the first two movies, and is rather depressing to watch, actually.
Since this series of movies derives from a comic book series, let me sum it in these terms. The first two Kingsmen movies were Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, while this clunker was Ben Affleck as Batman.
