‘The King’s Man’ review: A depressing, long ‘Kingsman’ prequel
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nypost.comamped it up to a ludicrous level. An example of the no-holds-barred crazy: Julianne Moore played an international drug lord named Poppy, who, as it would happen, took Elton John as her prisoner.
And now here’s a dreary prequel (aren’t they all?), “The King’s Man,” which is almost totally laugh-less, lacks a charismatic lead (Egerton’s character isn’t born yet) and is bogged down by the trench warfare misery of World War I.
Writer-director Matthew Vaughn, who’s helmed all three, needs to either call it quits or hand over the reins to someone with some self-control.
The formidable talent of Ralph Fiennes can lift his movie some, but the man’s not Hercules.The prequel’s premise was set up by Colin Firth in the first film, when he described.
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