Review of Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) by Gabsdi — 02 Oct 2017

The movie is as over the top as the first one or even more. For a lot of people that may reach absurd levels but honestly, the folks who loved the first movie and it's satire essence, absurd fight scenes (however with way less gore than other movies with the same style) and it`s hundreds of jokes, will pretty much enjoy The Golden Circle.

This film was a 7 out of 10 for me. I`ll start with the negative points. As shown in the trailer, Colin Firth's character is back, not a great fan of bringing a cool character back to life, as Valentine said after the church scene "This ain't that kind of movie" , for me, bringing Harry back takes back those words. However, his character works almost perfectly in the movie, a few things weren't as I would prefer, and with the exception of an issue that appears but then vanishes, his character works pretty fine. The Golden Circle has a LOT of sad moments but I believe the viewers weren't given the proper time to grief, the movie is big and that's understandable but still a point to mention. As seen in the trailer, this film has a huge list of famous names, but I get the feeling that 2 names were characters that had no time, the only statesman with a proper screentime is the one played by Pedro Pascal, I quite missed the presence of Tatum and Bridges. Finally and last thing to mention, the movie indeed repeats it`s predecessor formula. We have a bar scene, a water scene, a car scene, the villain's sidekick getting to fight a lot at the end. However, I must say that while watching most of this scenes felt fresh, when they star you get the feeling that it will be a repeated story but it has unexpected ends, I got myself multiple time shook during the movie, screaming at the characters "please don't do this" or "omg I can't believe he is going to die" so this is the point we get from the negative points to the good ones! Even tho people are saying that they weren't feeling for the characters, I personally got very worried about what was happening to them, the movie indeed falls for to many plot lines but this isn't as much bad as the rumors, maybe my final thought will be that they could have saved a few stuff for the 3rd movie, but okay. Besides those things I mentioned, the movie has a lot of humor, a lot of action, no church scene but that's fine. The discussion that the the villain brings up is very well fit for our society and I'm honestly looking forwards the 3rd Kingsman, I just hope they'll be fixing those problems but I'm not asking for another Secret Service cause to be fair, the greatest part of that first movie is that it came outta nowhere and people weren't expecting none of that, in other words, the element of surprise.