Madfilm Meetup: Movie Tuesday
Kingsmen: The Secret Service | Matthew Vaughn | USA | 2015 | 128 min
Marcus Point Cinema, Tuesday, February 17, 7:15pm»
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We promised more critically divisive films for the Meetups this year, and this Tuesday we’re venturing to Marcus Point for the new graphic novel adaptation, Kingsman: The Secret Service, directed by Matthew Vaughn (KICK-ASS) and starring Colin Firth, Michael Caine, and Samuel L. Jackson. Studio synopsis: “A super-secret spy organization recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.”
Admission is $5 as a Movie Tuesday at Marcus Point. Since this is the opening week for Kingsman: The Secret Service, we strongly recommend purchasing your tickets in advance online (see ticket link above).
Join Madison Film Forum contributors James Kreul and Jake Smith at the screening. With the Madfilm Meetups, the Madison Film Forum provides opportunities to attend great films and meet people doing the same.
Kingsman: The Secret Service has had a mixed response from film critics, earning a 71% Tomatometer Rating at Rotten Tomatoes. You can find a collection of reviews, positive, mixed, and negative, at our Flipboard Magazine:
Review highlights include:
“Kingsman is not a film for gentlemen. It’s for us, the great unwashed, bloodthirsty audience. It’s an immaculately engineered, laugh-out-loud appeal to our own depravity.” Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
“Caught between straight-up James Bond and the Austin Powers parody version, Kingsman is a high-octane combo of action and comedy that breathes surreal new life into the big-screen spy game where Bond meets Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“The problem is that Mr. Vaughn has no interest in, or perhaps understanding of, violence as a cinematic tool. He doesn’t use violence; he squanders it.” Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“Slick entertainment, provided the viewer turns off whatever part of their brain is responsible for recognizing and parsing subtext.” Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, A.V. Club
“Vaughn packs the frames with eye-popping detail, and there’s an infectious creative energy to his violent action sequences, but the film’s hatefulness is hard to stomach.” Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader