Review of The King's Man (2021) by Migdalorguy — 20 Feb 2022

Wow, did that ever suck. The whole series of films were midly entertaining if somewhat muddled, but this origin story was an absolute disaster that should have never been made. Yes, it's story and fantasy, but to screw around that much with real history is just going a bit too far.

If it had simply tried to be an alternate history, and then cast the previoous film s as simply being part of that alternate history, then maybe, just maybe, there's a semi-plausible story here. But to set it amidst well-documented world events just didn't work.

There were enough bad forces at work that no pissed off Scotsman to be the arch villain architect was necessary. War's futility is obvious to anyonme who has ever participated in it, been affectred by it, or even read about it.

This attempt to write a backstory of an organization dedicated to keeping the world safe and at peace through utlimately overly violent means is an insult to the intelligence of any thinking, educated person.

Maybe the ultimate goal of armed forces is peace (though I'm not fully convinced of that) but the arms manufacturers and other who profit from war arte the real arch villains, and this movies serves only to distract a modern audience from the reality.

While it may claim to be as gritty as it is, with lots of blood and gray matter splatter precisely to show how awful war it, it is still, utlimately, a film glorifying the efforts of a small few using extreme violence to defeat some ultimate eveil force.

The film is riddled with plot holes, inconsistencies, historical inaccuracies and anachronisms, and the actors, even the distinguished Mr. Fiennes turnmed in caricature performaces at best. Don't waste your time with this piece of tripe.

Unless you'd really like to imagine what the WWI era would be as a video game. Actually, a video game might have better acting and plot.