[a fool in paradise]

I got a different take from this review in a village voice media free newspaper:

Crazy-Pants Spy Parody Kingsman Smartly Exposes Us as the Bad Guys
The most interesting comic-book movie of the past few years.
By Alan Scherstuhl Tuesday, Feb 10 2015
http://www.houstonpress.com/2015-02-12/film/kingsman-review/

Those more devoted to the genre can debate whether Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman is the best comic-book movie of the past few years. What’s beyond argument, however, is that Vaughn has whipped up the most interesting one, the only to make ferocious, unsettling art out of the great contradiction of superheroic fantasy: jolly do-goodism and its brutalizing sadism.

Vaughn’s violence here is more florid, ingenious and giddily amoral than the provocations of Kick-Ass, his 2010 adaption of a comic co-created by Mark Millar, the troublemaking Scottish co-author, with artist Dave Gibbons, of the Kingsman comic series. Kingsman’s opening plays like British Sniper meets The Lego Movie: A pair of Taliban in the Afghan desert suffer rah-rah head shots, and then Western helicopters strafe their ancient palace, the rubble exploding out and morphing into the movie’s opening credits. Liberals who feel queasy about all that Arab-murdering should know that Vaughn bookends that mission with a climax targeting the worst of the West, the billionaires who might opt in to the just-the-swells new society of Atlas Shrugged’s Galt’s Gulch — I won’t spoil it except to say the scene is wicked and rapturous...

[Jabba the Nutt]

So the Taliban are Arabs, who knew? I love getting lectured on racism by genius’ who tell me stuff like this.