Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017
***
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Pedro Pascal, Elton John, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Edward Holcroft, Hanna Alström, Bruce Greenwood, Emily Watson
When a sinister drug kingpin kills most of the Kingsman agents, Eggsy and Merlin seek out Statesman, an American branch of the organisation, where they make an unexpected discovery. The follow-up to Kingsman: The Secret Service delivers another entertaining but instantly forgettable mix of locker room humour and cartoonish violence. However, this time the script is all over the place and the movie ends up being about 30 minutes too long. Vaughn could have easily trimmed the running time by cutting out 75 % of a needlessly long celebrity cameo.
