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This looks fun. Colin Firth, Caine, Jackson; and some kid.

(I read the comic.)

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I hope its not another tinker tailor...

Wait till the post cinema release for this.

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I think this will be far from Tinker Tailor. You didn't like it?

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I didn't mind it. but it just dragged on...

Will check this out if I get some time.

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This was a fun movie. Colin Firth rocked, Samuel L Jackson didn't look too outta place for a change. Unfortunately the kid felt too young.

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Gonna check it out this weekend. Had seen the trailer quite a while back at the movies and I loved it.

Never heard of Tinker Tailor...

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Gary Oldman is great in Tinker, but it's a very very very slow movie.

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Saw it last weekend, and kind of enjoyed it in a very brain candyish way.

It's a nice tribute to the sillier Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan era James Bond in the sense that the world domination plot is ridiculously over the top, but being fully self aware of it's nature. It's both a tribute and a satire at the same time, with some nice, charismatic performances from Colin Firth, Taron Egerton (who is a real discovery) and Mark Strong. Samuel L. Jackson has lots of fun riffing on your archtypical Bond villain, giving him a lisp and a running joke about his aversion to blood.

The feel of it is familiar, which is not surprising since the guy who came up with the idea is former comic book writer turned Hollywood idea man Mark Millar, and it's directed by Matthew Vaughn (who, incidentally, directed two of Mark Millar's other ideas turned into movies). It has the hyper violent nature of Kick Ass (conceived by Millar, directed by Vaughn) and the world building of Wanted (also originally conceived by Millar), but with a more "gentlemanly" refinement to it (but still not above a bit of vulgarity here and there).

It's not a bad movie, just a movie that probably won't linger too long in your mind a month or two after you've seen it. I was amused for the most part, but it's nothing more than a fun time waster. I have to say though that it does feel like a step backwards for Vaughn - he's done some incredibly well done films like Layer Cake and X-Men: First Class. I kept feeling like he could have done more, but it felt a bit like he was coasting.