T.HE KING’S MAN – THE ORIGINS
Gender: adventure, comedy ✦✦
Direction by Matthew Vaughn. With Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Harris Dickinson
Before the Kigsman Secret Society ushered in the habit of gathering in a chic Savile Row tailor’s shop to save the fortunes of the crown and the world, a chain of events including the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the outbreak of the First World War, the death of Rasputin (Rhys Ifans, perverted and quite irresistible) leads back to the street.
The prequel is always a choice of laziness and even this “origin story” gives few signs of life: good choice to make Ralph Fiennes a man of action fighting and jumping with a parachute and choosing as the perfect antagonist a claiming Scotsman at the head of a club of historical and mythical figures, from Mata Hari to Lenin.
But to rewrite history at least it takes Quentin Tarantino.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ great
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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