It is a mess of a story cultivating in place of a very weird sense of humor with frantic action scenes and very serious matters of events in history. Something was off in a combination of events, music and editing fluctuating between comedy, sometimes tragedy, drama and action.
The interesting part of the movie, which one appreciates, was the effort to embed the King's man inauguration into a surprisingly accurate historical description of the three German origin cousins; King George of V of Britain, Nikolas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, the one widely considered a moron, and to the assassination of Austrian Franz Ferdinand triggering the events of World War I. Some little details such as King George changing his family name to Windsor from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to avoid comparison to Wilhelm II were also accurate. One was left wondering whether the presented "honeytrap" blackmail of the United States president was really a reason behind their delay in joining the war.
The acting and actors were great and it was a real pity that other parts of the movie failed. Three royal cousins were all wonderfully played by Tom Hollander and Rhys Ifans take of Rasputin was spot on.
What can one then take from this movie? Pacifism is for naïve people, boys shouldn't idolize war, English men will save the day, the Scots are secretly plotting a payback and are behind the World Wars and goats should be really treated with much more respect!
The interesting part of the movie, which one appreciates, was the effort to embed the King's man inauguration into a surprisingly accurate historical description of the three German origin cousins; King George of V of Britain, Nikolas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, the one widely considered a moron, and to the assassination of Austrian Franz Ferdinand triggering the events of World War I. Some little details such as King George changing his family name to Windsor from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to avoid comparison to Wilhelm II were also accurate. One was left wondering whether the presented "honeytrap" blackmail of the United States president was really a reason behind their delay in joining the war.
The acting and actors were great and it was a real pity that other parts of the movie failed. Three royal cousins were all wonderfully played by Tom Hollander and Rhys Ifans take of Rasputin was spot on.
What can one then take from this movie? Pacifism is for naïve people, boys shouldn't idolize war, English men will save the day, the Scots are secretly plotting a payback and are behind the World Wars and goats should be really treated with much more respect!