On New Year's Day, I went to my local AMC theater to watch The King's Man...a prequel to the first two Kingsman movies that were released in 2014 and 2017, respectively.
Just like Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the new installment was directed by Matthew Vaughn—who instilled in this film the same awesome action sequences, emotion and humor as its predecessors.
The King's Man has a great cast (featuring Gemma Arterton, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew Goode, Alexandra Maria Lara, Valerie Pachner and Daniel Brühl, among others)...with Ralph Fiennes as the badass veteran agent Orlando Oxford who effortlessly beats up the bad guys while being elegant at the same time. As the saying goes, "Manners maketh man."
What The King's Man made me want to do after the film ended was to go online and do research on the historical figures (such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand) who made an appearance in this movie—which takes place before and during World War I. Yes, this flick was fairly accurate in depicting the actual assassination of the archduke...with Orlando Oxford and his headstrong son Conrad Oxford (Harris Dickinson) thrown into the mix during this 1914 incident.
And I had no idea that Rhys Ifans—who recently returned as the Lizard in Spider-Man: No Way Home—played the villainous Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin in The King's Man! (Yes, Rasputin was a real person.) Well-done.
If a sequel to The King's Man is made, we'll see if um, Adolf Hitler has a bigger role in that film...considering his appearance in The King's Man's end credits scene. That is all.
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