Kingsman: The Secret Service

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Movie
German title Kingsman: The Secret Service
Original title Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman. logo.svg
Country of production United Kingdom ,
United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 129 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Matthew Vaughn
script Matthew Vaughn,
Jane Goldman
production Matthew Vaughn,
Adam Bohling ,
David Reid
music Henry Jackman ,
Matthew Margeson
camera George Richmond
cut Conrad Buff IV ,
Eddie Hamilton ,
Jon Harris
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Kingsman: The Secret Service is a British - American agents - Action - comedy from Matthew Vaughn from the year 2014. It is a film adaptation of the eponymous comic book by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons .

action

Kingsman is a secret, non-governmental organization founded by England's noble houses after World War I to protect the country from harm. Its members enjoy training as a gentleman -Spion and bear the names of people in the Arthurian legend .

During a mission in the Middle East , a member of the Kingsman sacrifices his life to save his comrades. Harry "Galahad" Hart, the head of the troupe, then presents the deceased's widow with a medal of bravery. She refuses this, however, and so he instead gives it to her son Gary "Eggsy" and tells him that in an emergency he can reach him via a telephone number engraved on the back with a code word.

17 years later, Internet billionaire Richmond Valentine poses as a philanthropist and promises everyone free SIM cards with which they can make free calls and surf the Internet. At the same time he has secretly kidnapped important politicians and members of royalty from all over the world. He plans to save the world by drastically decimating the world's population. To do this, its SIM cards are supposed to emit a signal that makes people violent so that they kill each other. He has a chip implanted in his followers' heads to protect them from the signal. At the same time, the chip enables him to detonate the wearer's head in an emergency. The Kingsman "Lancelot" succeeds in tracking down one of the kidnapping victims, Professor James Arnold, in Argentina . According to the film, the professor is convinced of the Gaia hypothesis that the world can heal itself, which is basically similar to Valentine's ideology . However, during the rescue operation, Lancelot is split in half by Valentine's bodyguard, Gazelle.

Eggsy has grown into a young man in London. He lives with his mother, his little half-sister and his despotic stepfather. Despite being intelligent and talented, he has dropped out of military training and lives a good-for-nothing life. After being arrested for stealing a car and then fleeing the police, Eggsy calls the number on the medal. Galahad then arranges his release and invites him to join the Kingsman recruitment program as they look for a replacement for Lancelot. There Eggsy has to prevail against eight other candidates. The experienced Kingsman Merlin leads the entrance exams, in which one participant after the other drops out. At the end of the elimination process, Eggsy and the ambitious Roxy remain in the race. As a final test, Eggsy is supposed to shoot his dog. Since he refuses and does not pass the final test, Roxy is declared the new Lancelot. It later emerges that the pistol was only loaded with blank cartridges.

In the meantime, Professor Arnold has reappeared. When Galahad tries to question him about his meeting with Valentine, Valentine activates his implant so that his head explodes before he can reveal anything. Thereupon Galahad is attacked by two armed men, but he is wounded and escapes. The death of the professor leads the Kingsman on the trail of Valentine. Galahad pretends to be a billionaire to meet Valentine for dinner and learn more about his plan.

Galahad pursues Valentine to a Southern fundamentalist church in Kentucky . In this, Valentine carries out a test of his SIM cards and all church visitors fall on each other. Galahad also takes part in the slaughter, but can assert himself against all other churchgoers with his hand-to-hand combat skills. Thereupon Valentine reveals himself as the cause of the chaos and shoots Galahad through the eye in the head with a pistol.

Eggsy was able to follow the action in Galahad's house together with Merlin and Arthur, the chief boss of the Kingsman, via video transmission. He goes to Kingsman Headquarters and discovers that Arthur is already on Valentine's side, as his head has a scar from the operated chip. When Arthur tries to kill Eggsy with a poisoned drink, the latter swaps the glasses so that Arthur poisons himself.

After Arthur dies, Eggsy, Roxy and Merlin set out to take out Valentine and thwart his insane venture. In order to prevent the devastating signal to the Valentine phones, Roxy climbs into the stratosphere with the help of two gas balloons and destroys one of the communications satellites with a rocket. At the same time, Merlin Eggsy flies by plane to Valentine's bunker in the mountains, where Valentine and the chosen ones spend the time in safety until the end of the project. There Eggsy tries to mingle undercover with the people and give Merlin access to Valentine's systems over the WiFi network. However, he is recognized by Charlie, who was with him in the recruitment program and whose rich family was also invited, and exposed as a spy. After his escape back on the plane, he learns that Valentine's system is biometrically secured, so Merlin cannot gain access to it, and that he is in the process of redirecting his signal to another satellite.

While Eggsy is fighting again on the way to Valentine, Merlin detonates the chips implanted in the “chosen ones” and destroys all Valentine followers. Since Valentine and his bodyguard do not have an implant, Eggsy then fights against Gazelle and kills her after a tough fight with a poisoned blade in his shoe. Thereupon he also kills Valentine by throwing a blade from Gazelle in the back and thwarts his plan at the last second. In the final scene, Eggsy, armed in the best James Bond fashion with a champagne bottle, treats himself to a shepherd's hour with the Swedish princess who is held captive in the bunker, although it was previously indicated that he has an eye on Roxy.

In the credits, Eggsy - now a full Kingsman member and the new Galahad, since the old one is considered dead - frees his mother from the clutches of his violent stepfather and offers her a new life.

synchronization

actor German speaker role
Taron Egerton Constantin von Jascheroff Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
Colin Firth Tom Vogt Harry Hart (Galahad)
Mark Strong Oliver Siebeck Merlin
Samuel L. Jackson Engelbert von Nordhausen Richmond Valentine
Sophie Cookson Maria Hönig Roxy (Lancelot)
Sofia Boutella Lo Rivera gazelle
Michael Caine Jürgen Thormann Chester King (Arthur)
Samantha Womack Alexandra Wilcke Michelle Unwin
Edward Holcroft Jacob Weigert Charlie Hesketh
Hanna Alström Anna Carlsson Princess Tilde
Geoff Bell Roman Kretschmer dean
Mark Hamill Hans-Georg Panczak Professor James Arnold
Bjørn Floberg Jonas Bergström Prime Minister Morten Lindström
Jack Cutmore-Scott Marius Clarén Rufus
Jack Davenport Karlo Hackenberger Lancelot
Fiona Hampton Anne Helm Amelia
Morgan Watkins Ricardo Richter rottweiler
Jordan Long Lutz Schnell Poodle
Tobi Bakare Julius Jellinek Jamal
Lily Travers Victoria Frenz Lady Sophie
Nicholas Banks Henning Nöhren Digby
Velibor Topic Waléra Kanishcheff Big Goon

production

The film was u. a. Filmed at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden and Pinewood Studios in London .

It celebrated its premiere at the Butt-Numb-A-Thon Film Festival on December 13, 2014. The cinema release in Germany was on March 12, 2015. The free TV premiere in German-speaking countries took place on January 8, 2017 on SRF Zwei , Pro Sieben broadcast a version shortened by about 7 minutes during prime time, so almost the entire church massacre was cut out, as well as several takes in Valentine's bunker.

Soundtrack

The following music titles were used as film music:

reception

Kingsman: The Secret Service has received mostly positive reviews so far. At Rotten Tomatoes , 74% of reviews are positive out of 243 reviews. The average rating is 6.8 / 10. At Metacritic , the film received a rating of 60/100 based on 50 reviews.

Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Travers noted that the action film "hit hard" was "tremendously shaken, not stirred" and would "provide entertainment until the very end, even if the plot is no longer entirely conclusive." The New Yorker's Anthony Lane criticized that "few recent films" were "as haunted as Kingsman ". Nevertheless, he expects that "numerous moviegoers will enjoy the shameless pleasure", although the film ventures on some stereotypes. Manohla Dargis of the New York Times liked the film, but she criticized the use of violence as a cinematic medium, which made the film "narrative overkill". The Guardian's Jason Ward wrote, "Everything about Kingsman just overrides the fact that the film is solidly conservative." Jordan Hoffman wrote in the same newspaper that "the spirit of 007 is in the entire film", but Vaughn's script has "a license to parody the model". Peter Sobczynski of the website rogerebert.com rated the film 2 out of 4 stars and rates Vaughn's script as the spy film equivalent of Scream  (1996), but he also criticized the excessive use of explicit violence, despite the cartoonish portrayal. The film service called Kingsman a “stylish comic film adaptation full of exquisitely choreographed fight and action scenes that delightfully ironically ironizes English class differences”, but the “excessive orgies of violence” would make the film “a cynical spectacle in itself”. David Siems from epd Film gave 3 out of 5 stars and came to the conclusion that Kingsman had everything “Bond fans of the classic school” need: “familiar agent gadgets (shoe with jackknife!), Razor-sharp sidekicks and a furious finale, which of course contradicts all logic. "

Awards (selection)

The film was nominated for the Saturn Award in four categories in 2016 . In 2015 the production received the Empire Award for Best British Film , Taron Egerton received the award for Best Newcomer.

Sequels

Millar and Vaughn had indicated that a sequel would be considered if the film does well in theaters. The sequel highlights the American equivalent of the Kingsman, the so-called Statesman. Their headquarters are under a distillery called "Statesman Whiskey".

Kingsman: The Golden Circle was released in US theaters on September 22, 2017. The film ran a day earlier in German-speaking cinemas.

The prequel The King's Man: The Beginning is due to be released in German cinemas on February 25, 2021. It is about the founding of the organization and the first Kingsman.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Age rating for Kingsman: The Secret Service . Youth Media Commission .
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  4. ^ Filming & Production. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 6, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Release Info. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 6, 2015 .
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  10. ^ Peter Travers : Kingsman: The Secret Service. Rolling Stone , February 11, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2015 (English): “This slam-bang action movie about British secret agents is deliriously shaken, not stirred […] Even when it stops making sense, Kingsman is unstoppable fun. "
  11. ^ Anthony Lane: Society of Men. In: The New Yorker . February 16, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2015 (English): “Few recent movies have fetched quite as far as 'Kingsman', and countless viewers will relish the brazen zest of its invention. [...] Female characters are no more than also-rans, and most of the male ones are stiff with stereotyping. "
  12. ↑ Manohla Dargis: Review: In 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' Colin Firth Get His Suits Splattered. In: The New York Times . February 12, 2015, accessed March 2, 2015 .
  13. ^ Jason Ward: Is Kingsman the most conservative comedy this century? In: The Guardian . January 27, 2015, accessed March 2, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Jordan Hoffman: Kingsman: The Secret Service review - dapper laughs in thrillingly adolescent 007 pastiche. In: The Guardian. December 30, 2014, accessed on March 2, 2015 (English): "The spirit of 007 is all over this movie, but Vaughn's script [...] has a license to poke fun."
  15. ↑ Peter Sobczynski: Kingsman: The Secret Service. In: rogerebert.com. February 13, 2015, accessed March 2, 2015 .
  16. ^ Kingsman - The Secret Service. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved April 17, 2015 .
  17. ^ David Siems: Kingsman: The Secret Service. In: epd-film.de. January 20, 2015, accessed April 17, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Jacob Bryant: 'Star Wars', 'Mad Max', 'Walking Dead' Lead Saturn Awards Nominations. In: Variety . Variety Media, LLC, February 24, 2016, accessed August 21, 2018 (American English).
  19. ↑ Leo Barraclough: 'Interstellar' wins Film, Director at Empire Awards. In: Variety . Variety Media, LLC, March 30, 2015, accessed August 21, 2018 (American English).
  20. ^ Kingsman Sequel Gets a Title, Synopsis, And Concept Art. In: Comicbook.com. Retrieved April 15, 2016 .
  21. ^ Kingsman: The Golden Circle - ComingSoon.net. In: ComingSoon.net. Retrieved April 15, 2016 (American English).
  22. ↑ Hannes Koenitzer: The King's Man: The Beginning - Disney postpones the film to 2021 . August 28, 2020. Accessed August 28, 2020.
  23. Jump up ↑ Starts: The King's Man: The Beginning. Retrieved January 4, 2020 .