If you think having a woman co-writing the screenplay will help in the egregious gross sexism department you are mistaken one of this movie’s “gags” involves putting a tracker on a villain’s girlfriend by means of a form of sexual assault the current president of the United States once bragged about. Similar dismemberments and body halvings are delivered in the sequel, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle.” It’s violence for cowardly voyeurs who want to make the people who annoy them just shut up in a way that’s silent, sterile, and thoroughly humiliating to the victim.īut the movie was successful, so now there’s the sequel, cooked up in the script department by director Vaughn and Jane Goldman. These mutilations were depicted in a sterile, near analgesic fashion the audience is meant to titter at the loss of life and limb delivered so efficiently, with no pain, no mess. With these she can amputate limbs, and even cut a man entirely in half.
The true tell in the first film was the character of Gazelle, a henchperson of the main villain, a woman whose prosthetic legs are sharp knife edges.
It even managed to make its last-call anal sex joke seem mildly charming … if you didn’t think about it too much. The movie itself, a sort of bildungsroman in which raw recruit Eggsy ( Taron Egerton) is given a class-conscious catapult to lethal gentlemanhood by older agent Harry ( Colin Firth), was sufficiently slick and energetic that you might not notice at first what a callous, nihilistic, smirky, sexist, retrograde pile of expensive garbage it was.
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