Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) [Movie Review]

Dir: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Taron Eagerton, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Elton John, Channing Tatum, Pedro Pascal, Edward Holcroft
Dur: 2 hrs 21 mins
Genre: Spy-comedy
Rating: 5/10

If you waited with as much expectation as I did for this film after watching its prequel, hoping to have a great experience like you did last time, then maybe you better lower your expectations or else you could get severely hurt (like me!!). I don’t know where to begin so allow me to begin from the end: The film was pretty much a disaster. The only reason I can think of for its success at the box office is the success of the prequel. Taking up where the previous left off, it is full of obscenities, blood and gore. The comedy is slapstick and forced, and the plot winds on and on unnecessarily for a very, very long 2 hours 21 minutes.

 Those two and half hours felt like the longest hours of my life. This is surprising for me to say, considering I am a fan of the spy, thriller, action, adventure genres. Kingsman, in my opinion pushed things too far. It was as if the director and producers were swayed by their previous success that they hardly bothered to refine the script and the production of the film. All the novelty that the previous Kingsman introduced and promised was forgotten and a drab run-of-the-mill spy movie was delivered. The excessive swearing does sting the ears after a while and the lame comedy becomes painful to watch as scenes go by.

The action is obscenely gory and care is taken to display brutality with the help of a little imagination. Many characters are shown in poor light; the President takes a really bashing. The whole story is low on logic but that doesn’t really count does it, when your aim is to make money! Needless to say, the film was a flop. The beginning and end were all that was there to it, really. Don’t waste your time on this. I’m sure you have better things to do. There is nothing new here and so you can’t hope to even get some new ideas.  

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