Wednesday 16 November 2016

Movie Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service

What's up, guys!!!!! Have you ever imagined how the world would be if one day our mind were controlled by our sim card? Pretty scary right. So, I will bring all of you traveling with me throughout the movie entitled Kingsman: The Secret Service. This movie is totally different than the other spy movies. You might be wondering what is Kingsman actually and what are the service that they do? To make things clear, I will make a review of this movie. So, enjoy yourself.

FUN FACT: When the production team discussing to make spy movies, they try to avoid the serious type of movie. So, they decided to make a fun one.  

In 1997, the group of agents from Kingsman are on a mission to catch a terrorist leader in the Middle East. They have failed this mission and caused Agent Lancelot dead. His family was given a medal of appreciation which enable them to ask any help from Kingsman. 17 years later, Eggsy, Agent Lancelot son was caught by the police for being delinquent. So, Eggsy asking the help from Kingsman to bail him at the police station. Agent Galahad who is responsible for Lancelot death comes to pay his promise. Soon after bailing him, Agent Galahad attaches a tracking device on Eggsy's cloth to track his movement and to give any help whenever he is in a trouble. When Eggsy arrives home, he was threatened by his mother's boyfriend. So, by using the tracking device, Galahad warns him to not make any harm towards Eggsy or he will face bad consequences. Galahad also instructs Eggsy to go to a cafe to meet him. As he arrived there, Galahad gives a short briefing about the history of Kingsman and what had caused his father dead. Suddenly, a group of Eggsy's school bullies come to the cafe wanted to bully Eggsy. By using his gadgets, Galahad able to fight with all of the bullies. Before he leaves the cafe, Galahad gives Eggsy his contact number so that he can call him if he interested to join Kingsman.

When Eggsy is interested in joining Kingsman, he was brought to a tailor shop 'Kingsman' by Galahad. They go to the Kingsman base camp by using the underground train beneath the shop. Before someone was chosen to become a Kingsman agent, he needs to go through all of the tests to qualify him as the next Kingsman agent. Eggsy is the Galahad mentee and he needs to make sure that Eggsy passes all of the tests. Unfortunately, Eggsy failed at the last test which required him to shoot his pet that he need to keep throughout his training at the Kingsman basecamp. In the meantime, An evil plan was planned by Dr. Valentine who uses sim cards to control the human population. He thought that the human population has exceeded its limit and had caused a lot of problems. So, to solve these problems, he designed a new sim card that when Valentine broadcast a neurological wave, it will cause sim card users to kill themselves. As a result, it will reduce the human population. Kinsman agents are needed to stop Valentine from broadcasting the neurological wave that will cause the reduction of human population. Eggsy, with the help of new selected Kingsman agent, Roxy are trying to stop Valentine by destroying the satellite system that was used to broadcast the wave. Even though they face a lot of challenges, they finally achieved their goal and managed to prevent Valentine to reduce the human population. As the token of appreciation of Eggsy contributions, he is elected to become the new Kingsman agent.

THREE INTERESTING WORDS 

1. Valor- strength of mind of spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness
Eggsy was chosen to be the new Kingsman agent due to his valor defeating all of Valentine's soldier even though he has a lack of experience.

2. Assailant- to attack or criticize (someone or something) in a violent or angry way
Valentine was assailed by the Kingsman agent because of his main intention that providing free sim card is not to help those who are in need but just for the sake to control the human population.

3. Ascertain- to learn or find out (something, such as information or the truth)
The history of Kingsman cannot be ascertained by the public as the information is highly confidential that will cause the secret of the national defense to be spread widely.

 HOW DID THE MATERIAL REFLECTS CURRENT EVENTS

Well, the material that was discussed is to control human population. This is because there is too much human that will lead to poverty. So, the antagonist, Valentine used a brilliant idea by manipulating the human mind. He altered  sim cards and put a tracking device on each sim card. This enables Valentine to transmit neurological wave via the sim card that will cause the user to act violently. As a result, they will kill other people. After watching this movie, I realized that nowadays there are too much telco companies that are promoting their sim card by giving free WiFi connection, free mobile call and free SMS. The users also managed to gain passive income just by using their sim card. All of this incredible promotions have attracted a lot of people. I'm scared that one day the telco company's owner will use the same method as Valentine did to control the human population. Yes, you may say that I'm overreacting. But, who knows? It might be true as shown in the movie, and it reflects the same situation that happens in Malaysia. So, it is up to you whether you want to believe it or not.

THANKS FOR READING AND LEARNING

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