In short, if you're as fed up with lame wannabe Die-Hards and Terminators as I am, go watch this film. But it's also a fantastic action film with an amazing cast (Oscar winners Colin Firth and Michael Caine, plus Sam Jackson AND Mark Hamill) and spectacular, over-the-top fight-scenes that in some instances even rival films like 'The Raid' for their sheer visceral intensity. You could say that this is to Bond what 'Game of Thrones' is to 'Lord of the Rings': Where the former can't and dare not go (for marketing and box office reasons), the latter joyfully and gloriously ventures. I don't know, maybe Matthew Vaughn has read that interview too and saw the potential, because 'Kingsman' is pretty much that: An ultra violent, funny, crazy, foul-mouthed James Bond film (with a little bit of 'Men in Black' and 'Mission Impossible' thrown in). Sadly, that never happened, but ever since I read that I wondered what an R-rated Bond might be like.

Years ago Tarantino said in an interview that he had written a James Bond script and that he would love to direct a Bond film. The Ipcress File (1965) Played by Michael Caine Spy Story (1976) Played by Michael Petrovitch (as Patrick Armstrong)īillion Dollar Brain (1967) Played by Michael Caineįuneral in Berlin (1966) Played by Michael Caine Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996) (TV) Played by Michael Caineīullet to Beijing (1995) (TV) Played by Michael Caine Called in to investigate a scientist's disappearance, Palmer's investigation takes a turn for the psychedelic when he's subjected to brainwashing.

While Connery's Bond was scoffing at the 'noise' of the Beatles, Caine's Palmer was wooing 60s dollybirds by driving them to his place in his Ford Zephyr and rustling up a meal. This Michael Caine vehicle may have been produced by the team behind the Bond films, but its hero Harry Palmer is the antithesis of Ian Fleming's suave super-spy. Ex-KGB & Russia's President putin calls this the most realistic portrayal of a spy. One of the best adaptation of a spy novel.

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