Summary

• Kingsman movies offer wild action, humor, and strong performances, similar to other spy genre films like Atomic Blonde and Kick-Ass.
• The Suicide Squad serves as a reboot that combines humor, irreverence, and vicious violence, reminiscent of Kingsman's style.
• Bullet Train, directed by John Wick's director, offers a wild action-comedy with colorful characters, aligning with Kingsman's tone.

Movies like Kingsman (2014) and the other entries in the franchise offer action and spy genre fans something a little wilder and unexpected. With a lot of action mixed expertly with humor, as well as the strong performances from the cast, it is easy to see why Kingsman: The Secret Service was spun into one of the most well-known action movie franchises of recent years. However, as unique as Kingsman can be, plenty of other movies have also done interesting things within the spy genre and even managed to capture some of the same magic.

The Kingsman series already consists of three movies to date with the promise of The Kingsman 3 to come. Matthew Vaughn's Argylle (2024) is the latest movie to show how other movies can explore the similar territory of fun spy movies that embrace wild action as well as a cheeky sense of humor. From other big franchises to superhero movies to full-blown comedies, these movies will offer just what fans of the Kingsman movies are looking for as they wait for the next chapter in the franchise.

20 The Suicide Squad (2021)

James Gunn's Colorful Comic Book Action Movie

Before James Gunn took over the DCU, he proved he could bring his own unique style to this specific comic book universe in The Suicide Squad. Like Kingsman, Gunn loves to combine irreverent humor with vicious violence, combining to make for a hilarious and wild ride filled with colorful characters.

The movie follows a band of supervillains who are tasked with a secret and dangerous government operation to stop a rogue science experiment being conducted on a foreign island. It is another colorful and vibrant movie that uses that exciting aesthetic to depict graphic and cartoonish violence, making for a fun ride and one of the best DC movies.

19 John Wick (2014)

Keanu Reeves Stars In The Vibrant Revenge Movie

While the action in the John Wick movies is far less cartoonish than what is seen in the Kingsman movies, fans who enjoy the long-take and ultra-violent church scene in the first movie will find plenty to like in Keanu Reeves' action franchise.

While all John Wick movies provide thrilling action, the first movie is the best place to start with the series as it takes a very simple yet effective approach to the action revenge story before the sequels build the grand mythology of the world. They are stylish and colorful action movies that are among the genre's best in recent years.

18 Bullet Train (2022)

Brad Pitt Leads The Comedic Action Adventure

One of the directors of the original John Wick movie offers another wild action movie with a tone much closer to The Kingsman movies. Bullet Train is an action comedy starring Brad Pitt as a reluctant assassin who attempts to take an easy mission of retrieving a suitcase from a train only to find himself stuck onboard with a host of colorful and deadly characters with motivations of their own.

Despite the cast of deadly characters, Bullet Train is a fun ride with a great sense of humor. Pitt is especially funny and the rest of the ensemble includes the likes of Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, Sandra Bullock, and Michael Shannon.

17 Smokin' Aces (2006)

A Star-Studded Action Movie About A Collision Of Deadly Characters

The infamous church shootout in the first Kingsman movie is a testament to how action movies can have over-the-top and ridiculous violence while also shocking the audience with its brutality. Smokin' Aces is one action movie that pulls this off incredibly well as it can be funny and wild at one moment only to get gruesome and gritty the next moment.

The movie is another great action ensemble that features the likes of Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys, Chris Pine, and Ben Affleck in the story of various FBI agents, assassins, and bounty hunters who all converge as they hunt the same target. The movie fully embraces its chaotic and

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16 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

Quentin Tarantino's Bloody Revenge Epic

Quentin Tarantino is one filmmaker who helped inspire the genre of movies, like The Kingsman, in which graphic violence collides with an ironic tone. However, there are still few who do it as well as Tarantino himself. In terms of action, Tarantino proved himself best with his kung-fu revenge movie Kill Bill. While Kill Bill is actually split into two movies, the first showcases the kind of wild action that Kingman fans will enjoy.

It stars Uma Thurman as a trained assassin who is betrayed and left for dead. After waking from a coma, she sets out on a mission to kill those responsible. The scene in which The Bride takes on the Crazy 88 gang in an epic sword fight feels like the kind of action sequence The Kingsman's church sequence strives to be.

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15 Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

The Classic Spy Franchise

Tom Cruise's signature action-thriller franchise showed no signs of slowing down in its sixth installment, with the star finding new ways to up the ante with the series' first long-haul director, Christopher McQuarrie.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout sees a greatest hits compilation of side characters come together to form Cruise's superteam this time around as they fight to prevent nuclear armageddon once again.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout sees a greatest hits compilation of side characters come together to form Cruise's superteam this time around as they fight to prevent nuclear armageddon once again. Fans of the Kingsman series' playful choreography will love the dedication to the stunts and structure of any given action sequence.

14 X-Men: First Class (2011)

The Mutant Origin Action Movie

Before adapting Kingsman for the big screen, director Matthew Vaughn had a similarly difficult task when aiming to revive the then-floundering X-Men movie franchise.

Once a pioneer in the comic book movie genre, the cinematic X-Men were at a difficult crossroads, trying to revive the series with a new cast taking on old characters. It may be nowhere near as graphic as any of the Kingsman movies but First Class certainly has plenty of Vaughn's flair running throughout it, not to mention a distinctly swingin' sixties James Bond vibe to it that Kingsman fans will definitely recognize.

13 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

A Spy Movie Comedy, More Than A Serious Action Franchise

In terms of send-ups and homages of the spy movies of the sixties and seventies, you can do no better than Mike Myers' classic Austin Powers series, particularly the first installment. The first Austin Powers film was, in fact, so popular that it spawned two sequels, with persistent rumors of a fourth film still in development.

Myers' titular sixties spy is thawed out, Captain America style, to face his arch-nemesis in a modern world and the humor is broader, zanier, and cruder than even Kingsman's. While Austin Powers is a franchise that does play with all the classic elements of the spy movie, it is far more of a comedy than an action movie franchise, with intentionally ridiculous stakes and comic-esque villains. It's ideal for anyone who enjoys Kingsman, but is looking for slightly lighter fare.

12 The Ipcress File (1965)

An Early Spy Classic

One of the many spy icons being spoofed in both the Austin Powers movies and the Kingsman series, beyond the obvious James Bond references, is the fellow literary-turned-movie secret agent Harry Palmer, most famously played by Michael Caine. (His look is what Austin Powers' and the Kingsman organization's thick-rimmed glasses are in reference to, as is Caine's casting in each series, essentially.)

A much more dour approach to the genre than the upbeat James Bond series, Caine's first outing as Palmer is as significant in the evolution of the spy movie as Dr. No.

11 Atomic Blonde (2017)

Another Comic-Book-Based Superspy Movie

Adapted from the 2012 graphic novel 'The Coldest City', Atomic Blonde stars Charlize Theron as a Cold War superspy caught in the middle of a murderous game of double-crosses in Berlin.

As slow and weighty as the plot may sound, the movie is really anything but. Original John Wick co-director David Leitch injects plenty of that long-take, meticulously-choreographed, fun into the movie's action sequences, all of it making for an intense rush of colorful bare-knuckle fun.

10 Spy (2015)

A Hilarious Send-Off Of The Spy Genre