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Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)

If you loved the first film’s hyper-violent, anarchic spirit, you’ll find scattered moments to enjoy—especially Pedro Pascal. But come prepared for a messy, overstuffed hangover. The original Kingsman was a surprise martini: dry, shaken, and potent. The Golden Circle is that same martini, but someone added Red Bull, glitter, and a cheap plastic sword. kingsman 2 full movie

Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a victim of sequel-itis in its most expensive form: bigger, louder, longer, and dumber. It mistakes excess for excitement and cameos for character development. For every thrilling lasso swing or Colin Firth expertly reloading an umbrella, there’s a tedious CGI robot dog fight or an inexplicably long scene of Elton John playing the piano. Rating: ★★½ (out of 5) If you loved

If Kingsman: The Secret Service was a perfectly tailored Savile Row suit—sharp, subversive, and surprisingly elegant—then Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a brightly colored, off-the-rack Halloween costume of that same suit. It has all the recognizable parts: the umbrella, the tailored violence, the winking vulgarity. But the fit is off, the stitching is loose, and somewhere between the exploding heads and the robot dogs, director Matthew Vaughn forgot what made the original so much fun. The Golden Circle is that same martini, but

The film opens with a devastating blow: the Kingsman organization is wiped out in seconds by a missile strike from a mysterious new villain. Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and Merlin (Mark Strong) survive, and following a "Doomsday Protocol" involving a bottle of vintage bourbon, they discover their American counterparts: Statesman. Think Kentucky bourbon, lassos, and cowboy hats instead of London suits and umbrellas.

The villain? Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore), a 1950s-obsessed drug lord hiding in a 1950s-style city deep in the Cambodian jungle. Her plan: release a global toxin in all her drugs, holding the world hostage for legalization. To stop her, Eggsy teams up with Statesman agents Tequila (Channing Tatum, criminally underused) and Whiskey (Pedro Pascal, stealing every scene). Oh, and Harry Hart (Colin Firth) is alive, suffering from amnesia after being shot in the eye in the first film.

5/10. Watch it for the action scenes on YouTube; skip the 141-minute runtime.