Comments on: The King’s Man (2021) https://thegoodsreviews.com/the-kings-man-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-kings-man-2021 Watching and asking: Is It Good? Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: ED https://thegoodsreviews.com/the-kings-man-2021/#comment-2810 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:55:30 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=11474#comment-2810 In reply to Dan Stalcup.

I’d argue that mentioning Ms. Arterton appears in a film makes adding “… and was very charming” quite redundant. (-;

]]> By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/the-kings-man-2021/#comment-2793 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:21:23 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=11474#comment-2793 In reply to ED.

I didn’t mention Arterton but she is definitely quite charming in this

]]> By: ED https://thegoodsreviews.com/the-kings-man-2021/#comment-2791 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:40:37 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=11474#comment-2791 My great disappointment with this film is that the villain’s motivation was something as inherently Republican as Scottish Nationalism – given the critical role of Dynastic follies au grandeur in generating the First World War, having a Mad Jacobite ultimately to blame for setting light to the kindling would have been far more coherent with the rest of the film.

On the other hand this film has the lovely Gemma Arterton using a Yorkshire accent; Mr Ralph Fiennes enjoying his rare opportunity to play a fine, upstanding gallant; President Woodrow Wilson getting parodied; Mr Tom Hollander’s unusual but thematically-brilliant triple; Mr Rhys Ifans giving us a Rasputin completely worthy of Boney M (One also finds his eventual demise a wonderful Action Movie translation of his historic fate; the Gentleman Amateurs make a mess of things, then an actual professional gets the job done); also, did I mention having a weakness for Yorkshire accents AND the lovely Gemma Arterton?

How could I hate a film like that?

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