A spy organisation recruits a promising street kid into the agency's training program, while a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.A spy organisation recruits a promising street kid into the agency's training program, while a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.A spy organisation recruits a promising street kid into the agency's training program, while a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
- Awards
- 11 wins & 36 nominations
Adrian Quinton
- Terrorist
- (as Adrian Quentin)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the film and trailer, when the new Kingsman recruits have their first nights sleep interrupted by a deluge of water pouring into the dorm, on-set, the scene went horrifically wrong. As writer, producer, and director Matthew Vaughn recalls "I shouted 'action!', the computer got it wrong and vrrrrssshh, everyone was twenty feet down underwater. Cameras, sound guys. People were in waders full of water, panic, everyone diving in, and pulling people out." The set, painstakingly planned and rehearsed using height markers and computer-programmed water tanks, washed away in a nearly Biblical flood when said computers went rogue. "Those actors weren't acting, they were absolutely terrified", shudders Vaughn. "It was awful for the first day of filming."
- GoofsThe number on the rear of the medal obviously represents the date that Eggsy's dad died - 19th December 1997. As Kingsman is a British organisation, it would be written 19.12.97, not 12.19.97.
- Quotes
Harry Hart: [to bigoted church lady] I'm a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, madam.
- Crazy creditsThere is an extra scene just after the end credits begin.
- Alternate versionsThe Vietnamese, Argentine and Indonesian cinema versions cut out the notorious church scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Take That: Get Ready for It (2015)
- SoundtracksMoney For Nothing
Written by Mark Knopfler / Sting
Published by Straitjacket Songs Ltd / Universal Music Publishing Ltd & EMI Music Publishing Ltd. © 1985
Performed by Dire Straits
Courtesy of Virgin EMI Records Ltd
Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd & Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
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Featured review
Not that Kind of Tailoring
From time to time in these comments, I remark on my surprise at how sophisticated young viewers are, and how they demand ever more complex and subtle self-referential folds. It gives me pleasure to realize that my flower children cohort were and still are largely incapable of this level of abstraction. It gives me hope for the future because introspective abstract reasoning is the central factor in reasoning about the world.
Then again, from time to time, the nearly suicidal revelation appears that these kids have lost much of what we knew, learned at great cost. We knew that governments shouldn't spy and torture; that women deserve level humanity; that death is not comic. We knew that feeding stereotypes, especially those of blacks, can be fun only when we know the game. We knew this, and still do.
I was patient enough with the excess until the church massacre. After all, I liked Kick-ass and Layer Cake. These had a different balance: yes, they were comic-influenced compositions of set pieces; yes they shamelessly exploited stereotypes and had unexpected nonchalant pleasure in the violence. But they placed the audience and filmmaker outside the film.
Here, the opposite is emphasized. This is not Bond or Bourne. No, it is not that kind of movie we are told. It is Bauer, who would shoot the dog after abusing it.
After the church scene, I felt myself tumbling into a dead future. Who would tolerate this? Who would enjoy it?
Then again, from time to time, the nearly suicidal revelation appears that these kids have lost much of what we knew, learned at great cost. We knew that governments shouldn't spy and torture; that women deserve level humanity; that death is not comic. We knew that feeding stereotypes, especially those of blacks, can be fun only when we know the game. We knew this, and still do.
I was patient enough with the excess until the church massacre. After all, I liked Kick-ass and Layer Cake. These had a different balance: yes, they were comic-influenced compositions of set pieces; yes they shamelessly exploited stereotypes and had unexpected nonchalant pleasure in the violence. But they placed the audience and filmmaker outside the film.
Here, the opposite is emphasized. This is not Bond or Bourne. No, it is not that kind of movie we are told. It is Bauer, who would shoot the dog after abusing it.
After the church scene, I felt myself tumbling into a dead future. Who would tolerate this? Who would enjoy it?
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- tedg
- Jun 24, 2015
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Kingsman and Sons
- Filming locations
- Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, Rowley Way, Camden, London, England, UK(council estate where Eggsy lives)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $81,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $128,261,724
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,206,331
- Feb 15, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $414,351,546
- Runtime2 hours 9 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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