As the film begins, we are introduced to a modern world where a secret organization called the Kingsmen exist. This group of extremely skilled and highly trained spies carries out missions unregulated by any form of government and is a completely top secret society. When one of our spies is killed off in the very beginning of the film, we are then transported to his home where his wife and young son live. Just after he passes, one of the leaders of the group stops by to visit the wife and child of his colleague to let them know of the unfortunate news, and while doing so gives the young boy a token that he says he may use once to get him out of anything that he needs. Flash forward fifteen years and that little boy is now a twenty-something hailing from a poor neighborhood and it seems as though life won't stop beating down on him. That is until he gets caught back up with the Kingsmen when we uses his token to get out of jail.
The story then takes on the new life of training and becoming a Kingsman in the tryouts with several other people. After he officially becomes a Kingsman he is taken on missions with the other spies as they try to stop the villain from taking over the world with his mind-controlling phone and internet services. This film does justice to not only the action and comedy genres, but has many great callbacks and references to older James Bond and other spy movies. Kingsmen completely changed my outlook on the espionage genre as a whole and allowed me to appreciate them much more!
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