Kingsmen: The Secret Service
Not what I was expecting. From the trailers, I got the impression that this was a light-hearted sendup of the Bond-style spy flicks. Instead, it was a motherfucking hardcore sendup of the Bond-style spy flicks. Exploding heads, gruesome deaths, ridiculous body count. Not that that's bad, just not what I was expecting. Some of the early scenes got darker than I'd thought they'd go, and we do have Samuel M.F. Jackson on board and an R rating, so once we (Mrs. Orbert and I) figured that out, all was fine. In fact, I liked the movie a lot, pretty crazy at times, but overall quite entertaining. Again, just not what I thought it was going to be.
Primary gripe: The dog test. And I don't even like dogs, but it just didn't seem like a relevant test or a particularly good one for testing what it was supposed to be testing.
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I get it. They wanted people who would follow orders, without hesitation. There could come a time during a mission when, based on the latest verified information, it turns out that they'll have to kill someone they "know" is loyal, someone they've perhaps come to love. But sitting in a room and telling the candidate to shoot their dog does not test that. We do know that the dog is loyal, 100% beyond a doubt. It cannot possibly be a traitor or a threat to the mission. All they're testing is whether the candidate will blindly follow orders and take out a completely innocent life. I fully expected that killing the dog would resulting in failing the test, not passing it.
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