Film Review: Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Cert: 15 Cert

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Screenwriter: (written by) Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman, (comic book "The Secret Service") Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons

Starring: Taron Egerton, Edward Holcroft, Gordon Alexander, Mark Strong, Hanna Alström, Calvin Demba, Thomas Turgoose, Tobi Bakare, Julianne Moore, Keith Allen, Tom Benedict Knight, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Sophie Cookson, Björn Granath

Running time: 2h 21min 

Parents advised reading before viewing a film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: (Moderate)

• There are several strong verbal sexual references including anal sex.

Violence & Gore: (Severe)

• The film contains frequent violence, which in most times it is strong and stylized. There are mass amounts of extreme destruction and mayhem. Some violence includes martial arts, fighting, punching, kicking, guns and shooting, knives and stabbing, hitting with fire extinguishers, electric lassos, bullwhips, exploding landmines, neck snapping, etc. 

• One of the characters disengages a large scissors logo, impaling two of Poppy's minions, blood is shown splattering on the scissors. 

Profanity:  (Severe) 

• There is frequent use of strong language such as "f**k" and "motherf**ker". In addition, the film contains two utterances of a religious profanity. 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: (Moderate) 

• Drug use theme is in the film but not seen 

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  (Moderate)

• There are scene that is not suitable for anyone under 15 so parental discretion is advised

Story: When the Kingsman Headquarters is destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents' strength and wits to the limit, these two elites, secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common enemy in order to save the world- something that's becoming a bit of a habit for Eggsy...

Likes: “Kingsman’s” sequel, “The Golden Circle,” isn't a bad film, but it doesn't live up to the first film. It still has the same spy action and the plot is decent enough, especially for a sequel, but it never quite reaches the same level as the first. 

The British/American theme works well together, although cultural jokes and references don't seem to match all that well, which I will attribute to poor script writing. Don't get me wrong- there are some moments where this film is funny- but it just wasn't enough, in my opinion, to be funny. Some scenes just slightly ruin the film from being hilarious- without a doubt this sequel has some major flaws that could've been better. 

Granted, the CGI was glaringly obvious throughout the film and slightly painful in certain scenes, but it allowed the film to create these brilliantly imagined and engaging action scenes which the first film based it the success and word of mouth upon. Without it, the action scenes would be gunfights like we have seen hundreds of times before. 

Although there is no scene on the same level as “The Church Scene” in the first film, “The Diner Scene” at the end does come close, with Pedro Pascal's "Skipping Rope" as a weapon adding something new and slightly sickening as he cuts through one Italian guard like a hot knife through butter. As well as two cyborg dogs, this film does offer some entertainment. All in all, the film was okay, but I would wait for it to come out on DVD or Netflix before watching.  

Dislikes :

•   One of the flaws this movie does is keep's zooming in on unnecessarily pointing during action scene which is about annoying as the shaky camera.
• Some of the jokes fell flat and the vulgar and childish humour kind of ruin the comedy in the film.

• The other problem with this film is its comedy and shock value didn't mix which put the film off balance, sadly this is why the film wasn't as good as the original.

Overall: Not as good as the original, Entertainment to a point, comedy is ok but falls flat.

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 for Entertainment / 7 out of 10 for a concept.