The King’s Man Early Reviews Call It The Worst Kingsman Movie
The early reviews for the Kingsman prequel The King’s Man are mixed at best. Some praise its innovative action, while others detest its overall tone.
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Reviews for The King’s Man are coming in a week ahead of the film’s December 22 release. The film is a prequel to the popular Kingsman series, and it stars Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Harris Dickinson, Rhys Ifans, and Djimon Hounsou. The first film in the series, Kingsman: The Secret Service, was released in 2014 with strong reviews that praised director Matthew Vaughn’s style, ambition, and willingness to turn the spy genre on its head. The film holds a 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. The 2017 sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, was less beloved. It earned a 51% RT score with the general consensus being that the film lacked the same magic as its predecessor.
The decision to make a Kingsman prequel before a third entry came as a surprise when it was announced in 2018. The prequel, The King’s Man, is also directed by Vaughn, and it depicts the formation of the Kingsman secret service amidst the backdrop of the first world war in the early 1900s. The film has experienced a number of delays over the years. It was initially slated for release on November 8th, 2019. It was then pushed a couple of times before eventually settling on a September 2020 release. However, the onset of the pandemic then resulted in The King’s Man being delayed to early 2021. Several other scheduling changes later, critics have now seen the film which is actually, finally coming out next week.
Reviews for The King’s Man are unfortunately not dissimilar from The Golden Circle. Some critics are saying the film is enjoyable enough as a fun spy-thriller throwback, while others are saying that it is the worst the franchise has produced yet. Check out what some critics are saying below:
Molly Freeman, Screen Rant
The King’s Man is neither a good entry in the Kingsman franchise nor a particularly enjoyable action movie in its own right. Whether a sequel to The King’s Man ever comes to fruition remains to be seen since it’s difficult to imagine any audience that might like this movie. Even fans of the Kingsman franchise may struggle to find anything to enjoy in the film aside from certain action scenes. Those who are fully invested in Vaughn’s film series may want to give The King’s Man a shot, but anyone who is not excited for this movie would be fine waiting until its home release (or skipping it altogether).
Matt Goldberg, Collider
It feels like at this point, Vaughn is simply using this franchise as a series of action-delivery vehicles, and The King’s Man shows that he’d be far better off in the realm of fictional spy escapades rather than throwing up the backdrops of historical tragedies.
Mike Reyes, Cinemablend
Offering a new flavor of adventure for the more serious but still comedically open minded viewer, the film may find those who dismissed the previous movies crossing the aisle.
Rosie Knight, IGN
The ambitious, strange, and overstuffed The King’s Man really does have magic woven in. There are standout moments that, on their own, deserve a 9/10. The action is stunning. Djimon Hounsou, Gemma Arterton, and Ralph Fiennes are great. The writing is at times laugh out loud funny. But it also often drags, gets confused with its own logic and politics, and struggles to make any clear statements on the things it takes so much time and effort to explore. For that reason, this is an undoubtedly divisive flick even for this reviewer.
Anna Smith, Deadline
Fiennes emerges as the hero in an overlong third act that features slick performances and action, but little narrative interest. This blend of serious war film, boys’ own adventure and preposterous comedy has its moments, but it’s a strange brew that ultimately falls a little flat.
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Since this one is set in an earlier period, with the decorous Ralph Fiennes now in charge, it flirts, at moments, with having a more restrained tone, as if it were the “Masterpiece Theatre” chapter of the series. The film oscillates, rather awkwardly, between grandiose cartoon heroics and a kind of dutiful flatness.
Frank Scheck, THR
Like many origin stories, The King’s Man has slow spots and pacing issues. The first half in particular takes a while to get going, but the attention to historical detail and the marvelous production values compensate for the occasional lethargy.
Hoai-Tran Bui, SlashFilm
“The King’s Man” is an imperialist nightmare, a film that nostalgically advocates for the “stability” of monarchy and the time of powerful empires. The way it weaves in real-life historical figures and tragedies, and offers up a conspiratorial answer to them, is the stuff of a 4chan thread’s dreams. As charismatic as its stars are, and as refreshing as its period setting is, the wildly inconsistent tone and overstuffed runtime loses whatever was left of the shine of the first “Kingsman.”
Dan Bayer, NextBestPicture
The entire film is just fun in a way that not many movies are these days: It’s smart but not overly so, fast-paced but with plenty of time for dramatic character beats, and lets the dialogue be equally as important as the action. “The King’s Man” is funnier, more surprising, and more heartfelt than the first two films in the series, and if the team can keep up this level of quality in the future, then Mr. Bond may just have to watch his back.
Derek Smith, Slant Magazine
The tonal clashes are enough to give you whiplash, as are the film’s swings from the snide to the sincere. But this is all part and parcel of this series’s worldview, which revels in the nobility of war, while supporting that notion by presenting a parade of barbaric tyrants and scoundrels that only the Brits can defeat on their way to restoring civility to the world.
Scott Mendelson, Forbes
The King’s Man is much better than The Golden Circle even if it lacks the razzle-dazzle and over-the-top kick of the first film. It’s much less grotesque and vulgar, earning but not pushing the boundaries of an R-rating. In a skewed way, it’s actually a fine example of how to shamelessly exploit an IP.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
There are spectacular set pieces and genuinely surprising twists: a fanatically maintained two-hour splurge of spectacular and artless bad taste with less of the smirking that made the first film unsupportable. This demands to be seen on the big screen but also on ITV4 on the small screen, with a tub of Quality Street on your Christmas-jumpered gut.
Christian Holub, EW
But for all its faults, The King’s Man is at least hilariously bad in the way that emotionless, made-by-committee blockbusters like Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are not. Some of the stylistic flair that once made Vaughn seem a promising, genre-fluent workman director are still present: Many of the shots in the climactic swordfight are filmed from the perspective of the weapons like a first-person-shooter video game, which is not something you can often say about cinematic sword fights. But now, three years deep into a subpar franchise, Vaughn’s initial promise seems lost in the mires of mediocrity.
Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy
The King’s Man might not entirely be what Kingsman fans expect, but Vaughn still sprinkles enough of it throughout to keep those fans entertained. The prequel doesn’t really shine that much light on the secret spy organisation, but it’s still a satisfying blockbuster watch for this Christmas.
Vikram Murthi, IndieWire
Its political incoherence could be forgiven or at least mitigated if “The King’s Man” wasn’t generally so dull. Save for an extended fight sequence against Rasputin, which effectively mixes dance and fight choreography, and a suspenseful scene when Orlando scales a mountain, the action sequences in “The King’s Man” are predictable and unengaging.
The response to The King’s Man seems to be mixed at best, as the film’s approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes is continually getting lower as more reviews come in. That’s not good news for Disney’s 20th Century Studios, which is gearing up to start shooting Kingsman 3 next year. This is the third Kingsman film directed by Vaughn, and the director is also returning for Kingsman 3. With The King’s Man currently sitting at a 42% RT score, it looks like this franchise is continuing the downward trend that started with The Golden Circle.
It is disappointing that the Kingsman series hasn’t been able to live up to its first entry. The Secret Service was such a breath of fresh air into the spy genre, and some believed it had the potential to be the next generation’s Bond. Who knows? Maybe Kingsman 3 will be phenomenal and turn this whole ship around. But with the reviews for The King’s Man generally being far from stellar, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stay interested in this series.
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