It was quite good! I had an excellent time. Guy Ritchie did a great job catching the ambiance and look of the era; and I found the plot nicely interlocking and intricate. He also managed to provide heroes with just enough in the way of significant character flaws to properly contrast their eventually heroic actions. I enjoyed myself: if there’s a sequel, I’d watch it. If there isn’t, it stands on its own.
And the soundtrack was great.
I’m not sure if you stick around to read the dossier as the credit rolled… Waverly not too surprisingly enough is a recovery alcoholics who renounced his claimed to his father’s lordship (he has an older more functional brother), but also a recovered opiate addict. He also apparently designed UNCLE special pistol.
The storming the castle, normally the really big production in most spy thriller is treated EXACTLY like how they do it in a typical ’60s spy movie with multi split screen action showing the whole things from different angle, and without dialogue nor on screen sound (it just has the soundtrack).
In all, this is one hella of a fun movie that would not be out of place had it come out in 1963.
These days I always stick around until the credits are done.