As you might’ve heard buzzing on the Twittersphere, "Kingsman: The Secret Service" has started screening for advance audiences, and word is good. Basically, if you’ve ever wanted to see Colin Firth going full on "The Raid" in an action/comedy, the latest effort from Matthew Vaughn will apparently more than fit the bill. And the brand new trailer is here showing off the self-aware, hyper-stylized flick that wants you very clearly to know that it’s not taking itself, or the spy genre, seriously.
“ ‘Skyfall‘ is pretty exhausting, isn’t it?” Vaughn told IGN. “It’s serious. I wanted to make this a film where ‘The Spy Who Loved Me‘ comes on, it’s on TV, and you go, ‘Oh, f#@k it, I’ll watch this for five minutes.’ An hour later you’re like, ‘Oh, s#!t. I’ve got to watch the ending now.’ You have to be in the mood for it. ‘Skyfall”s a great film. I thought ‘Skyfall’ was really good, but… And I was terrified, because I had just finished the script, and everyone was telling me, ‘Skyfall’s gone back to the old Bond! It’s fun, it’s this, it’s this!’ And I watched it going, ‘This is good, but it’s not…’ It’s not Kingsman; let’s put it that way.” And indeed, the Bond connection goes further with four new posters evoking the one sheet of "For Your Eyes Only," though with a couple of different twists.
Featuring a lispy Samuel L. Jackson, lots of gadgets, and even more action packed explosions, ‘Kingsman’ is unapologetically swinging for the fences. The film opens on February 13th.
This man just scratched an itch I\’ve had for 2 years – I could never put my finger on why I couldn\’t get all the way into Skyfall, but there we have it. Good observation.