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Kingsman: The Secret Service

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Kingsman: The Secret Service  (2015) A Review by Grant Kanigan Directed by: Matthew Vaughn Written by: Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman, based on Mark Millar & Dave Gibbons' comic book Starring:  Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson,                Mark Hamill, Michael Caine, Mark Strong Rating: 14A* Release Date: February 13th, 2015 Taron Egerton and Michael Caine share a drink in Kingsman: The Secret Service © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation      Spies have always been fodder for the most exciting of cinema; The Day of the Jackal, Where Eagles Dare, The Bourne  films, the entire  Bond  franchise, The Eiger Sanction, or even  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy  are all renowned classics of the genre, and continue to be thoroughly successful, (the last Bond film, Skyfall  grossed $1.1   billion  dollars). Yet, as cinema has been gleefully aware, most spy films are absurd, and most are about as realistic as Mary Poppins.  The greatest s