Ranking The Best Movie In Every Major Comic Book Franchise

19. Kingsman: The Secret Service

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The spy movie had enjoyed a 21st Century renaissance thanks to a rebooted Bond, a rejuvenated Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne, but the genre hadn't seen anything like Kingsman: The Secret Service before.

Matthew Vaughn gently mocks the tropes associated with cinematic espionage without outright laughing at them, while the more absurd elements of the story wouldn't have looked out of place during the later years of Roger Moore's tenure as 007.

The typically-stuffy Colin Firth shocked everyone with his reinvention as an action hero, while Taron Egerton's winning lead performance launched the young actor's entire career based on the strength of it. Smart, subversive, violent and a hell of a lot of fun, The Secret Service set the stage for an extended universe that already suffered from diminishing returns in follow-up The Golden Circle.

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