It’s hard to screw up a globetrotting World War I film filled with impeccable suits, political intrigue, and Ralph Fiennes, but The King’s Man managed to do it.
The film takes place in the years leading up to and including World War I and follows the Duke of Oxford (Fiennes), a respected, avowed pacifist (thanks to war trauma earlier in his life) trying desperately to hold onto peace, both for his only son, Conrad (Harris Dickinson) and the world at large. Eventually the terrible reality of war, global politicians’ inability to do anything about it, and a secret cabal of criminal masterminds force the Duke to shed his pacifism and take matters into his and his trusted allies’ hands, forming the bones of the secret, independent spy agency known as Kingsman.
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