Kingsman 2 movie review- by Beyond The Trailer

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This movie is just too damn crowded.

I have three columns of notes here, and when I finish them, I was like, you know, there’s stuff I still didn’t address, but let’s just do this. Let’s just break down this movie. It’s all your fault, Matthew Vaughn. And I’m going to explain that. But anyway. All right. So hello and welcome to my spoiler review of King’s Been to the Golden Circle. I’m particularly annoyed, by the way, because I just watched the first film again last night.

And while I did love the sequel, it’s not as good as the first film and it totally could have been. All right. So King’s been the Golden Circle.

The sequel is a two and a half hour adrenaline rush, and it has all the charm and style of the first film, but it’s missing the heart. And yes, I do mean Harry heart. And not just that, it needs more Colin Firth. And by the way, there’s some of you have asked me this. There’s no action scene here on par with the church scene from the first film. And I don’t even know if Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, the two strong creative forces behind this whole franchise, realize that that church scene was so special, not just because for the standout action, which Colin Firth was doing, I love I could it never gets old watching Colin Firth do action sequences. I don’t as I said in my spoiler review, I don’t care that it had been put on someone else’s body. I love it. But the church scene was really special because of all the different levels that had operated on both narratively. Like, you know, like there’s a lot of regular people who have become, you know, these crazed murderers in the church. But there was also a killing machine in there. And that’s unfair. That was amazing. But also there was a lot of social commentary going on with that scene. It just operated in a lot of different levels. And that doesn’t happen here. In fact, that’s a great way to describe the problem with this movie. It doesn’t only operates on one level, which is awesome fun, which is a good model to pick if you’re just going to pick one. But I miss the other levels that were given to me. And the other movie that also with Harry Hart, this movie has the Harry Hart problem for the first one, and that’s that Matthew Vaughn once again and Jane Goldwyn once again kill off a character. Actually, two characters.

No, three characters sorry, Roxxy fans that they’re totally going to regret doing. How do you not learn your lesson from the first film? I guess to some degree, maybe they killed them in ways that they there’s no question that they couldn’t be brought back. But that only made it all the more frustrating because it’s like you’re killing fan favorites, you know, to remain in one, two from the first film and one new one. But you’re doing so in a way that they’re like, yeah, we’re not bringing this character back. And you’re like, oh, but I want them back. It was very, very frustrating. But Roxy and so little screen time here, she doesn’t even get a section. I mean, I thought it was cute that she was feeding EXI, although I thought that was a good use of her time feeding him stuff at his dinner with the Princess Tilley’s parents. But I don’t know, even from the first film that was a little bit of a problem that Rocsi was supposed to be the one who won the position and she never was really given anything of note to do. You know, she still kind of seemed like she was in the intern spot. All right. So so anyway, Matthew Vaughn has revealed that his first cut of this movie, the sequel, was three hours and 40 minutes. And the missing hour is definitely missing from the finished product. I don’t know what I would have done if I was Fox. Quite frankly, when I release a two parter, maybe I would release a three hour and 40 minute movie.

I don’t know what was cut. I don’t know if the quality of it I don’t know if it fixes these problems, but I sure would like to see it. And Matthew Vaughn has said that perhaps that he would release an extended cut and I highly encourage him to do so. But I don’t understand how he can overshoot his running time by so much, particularly because one script page equals about a minute of film. So if he had a three hundred and, you know, whatever amount of minutes that is script, I’d be like, you’re obviously running over your Matthew. He said he usually cuts a lot of stuff out, but that’s a lot of stuff to potentially cut out. Why even shoot so much stuff? It makes no sense. And also, I have to say that in screenwriting, it’s a common practice not to write out your action sequences. You just go and then they fight. But if you have such an action heavy movie, maybe you should write out your action sequences, especially after this. This should be a giant warning, you know, a cautionary tale to any action movie going forward. And it just seems like Matthew Vaughn put Fox and this franchise in a difficult and unnecessary position, which, quite frankly, seems unprofessional to me.

I’m just surprised at someone with Matthew Vaughn’s experience would find himself having to cut an hour of the film and having a lesser product as a result. How does that happen? All right. So so now, as I said in my non spoiler review, I liked the movie. I know it doesn’t seem like it, but again, I’m a super fan of the first movie. I just watched it last night and I’m frustrated, super frustrated at the. Obvious problems at the school has and doesn’t need to have, all right, so No. One, why on earth would you kill off Pedro Pascal? Why would you do it? Your coolest new character you like? I remember how I killed Harry Hart. I’m doing it again. I mean, I just loved Pedro Pascal, his action scenes. I mean, I could watch him skip rope all day like another great character was created here. And I thought he out Americanized Channing Tatum and Jeff Bridges. I just like I think like I really loved him throughout the movie. But when he was riding the Silver Pony with his like America helmet, fighter helmet, fighter pilot helmet, I was just like, this is an amazing character.

I just loved it and I didn’t like it. And as someone who liked the character so much, I was frustrated with the way the movie ended up treating the character. And allow me to explain now, I said that this was a little bit too much of a gray zone for the moral dilemma that the movie presents this time around. And that was, of course, the reveal that Popi Julianne Moore’s character had poisoned all of her drugs. She’s the biggest drug supplier in the world and she was holding the world ransom, saying, I will not give you the anecdote unless you make drugs legal so I can be a legit business woman. I like that. That was a good idea. And I love the twist that the president of the United States said, well, I’m just going to let all the drug users die.

I just won the war on drugs. Oh, fantastic.

I thought that was really clever.

But then you started to get into a gray zone where Agent Whiskey, it was revealed that his wife and unborn child were killed due to their caught in the crossfire of drug related violence. So he also wanted to get rid of all the drug users. And so he ended up being a double agent. He wasn’t working for Poppy, but he was working against saving everyone.

And I can understand where he was coming from. Shourie crossed the line. Sure, it was the wrong thing to do. And, you know, it seemed like maybe I don’t know if he was trying to kill XY and Harry Hart. I was never totally sure about that. I think maybe he was just trying to stop them. So I don’t like that they killed him. I felt I was like, you know, the man’s hurting. He has a real he has a personal issue at hand here. Can’t we just take them out and imprison him and, you know, talk to him, you know, I mean, and also save him for another movie. And they not only killed him, but they put him in the food processor, totally called it. By the way, those are human burgers. But I was surprised that the human burgers were just a sidebar in the movie. How do you have people turned into hamburgers and not really making a big part of the film?

I thought it was like it was it was overkill for Poppy. I was like, she’s already a drug lord. Why she got to make human burgers, too. I don’t really see how this fits in. I mean, I don’t know, maybe it was just her her thing, but she’s never had anyone really come visit her. So why did she have all these quirks? Like, I don’t know. I mean, I guess it was to prove loyalty, but it was like nobody really knows you’re making human burgers, Poppy. I don’t know. All right. I also wondered who had a robotics degree, who is developing all these robots that her her her her Villon hideout. I never understood that. All right. I don’t think they wanted to or cared. The movie didn’t care.

But then we’re still an agent. Wisky. I thought that they had Agent Wisky, by the way. He continuously vote against ginger ale to become a statesman to imply that he was sexist. So help the audience not feel so bad when he was killed.

And I just felt that was a cheap and obvious shot at age. It was, yes. Like, you know, I don’t think Agent Whiskey would have voted against her. And I think you just, again, did that so that I wouldn’t feel bad when you killed him. But guess what? I still feel bad that you killed him. And now I also feel bad that you had to vote against ginger ale every time that she was up for a statesman, because I don’t think you would have done that.

So it was a real problem. And I’m surprised that when they were making the movie, this didn’t occur to anyone. They were like, man, Pedro Pascal is knocking it out of the park. Maybe we shouldn’t kill him. All right. So number two, they also killed Marlatt. I was really upset about that. And like, they had him, like, talking ginger ale, like, don’t you wish you could go into the field and it’s like, so you can die. I mean, that was like, really ridiculous. And then also, I didn’t like the fact it was X’s fault being so careless when they were in the field and they knew they were mines and they were sweeping for mines. How do you step on a mine? Especially because, again, I was reminded when I watched it last night in the first movie, he’s really supposed to know what he’s doing. So I don’t understand how you can make such a stupid mistake like that. And for Dickon, he also made the mistake about the arm in the car. I was like, you’re getting the Charly’s arm leading everybody to the king’s been that I was like I said, you’re getting everybody killed. It’s totally your fault. I mean, he went from being top of the class to being class goof with serious consequences and no one ever called him on it, which I also found frustrating. But of all the gadgets the Kingsman and the statesmen have, how do they not like they can survive a gunshot to the head? How can they not keep a mine from exploding? I was like this.

The end seems cheap and this time emotionally cheap. And the way Merlin went out singing I believe it was John Denver. I was kind of angry at the movie for putting me through that, to be perfectly honest with you. And look, I understand I’m sure some of you right now are like characters due to die. We want the stakes to be real. I mean, some of us want it very hard to stay dead. People are crazy, but, you know, I know that the first movie in particular made a really strong point of saying this ain’t a James Bond movie, this ain’t that type of movie. People die. But, hey, I’ll earn it if they’re going to die. Don’t be don’t take cheap shots. I like the poppy death. I thought her death was good, that Iggy intentionally overdosed her. It was a nice, subtle moment reminding us of ex’s past. What you know, he’s always been very clean cut to me. They never really sold me on that pass, to be honest with you. But I think it was a it was a stinging, effectively stinging. I mean, I liked it reminder of that.

It was good. I liked that. Now, as we’re coming back from the dead, I totally bought how they brought me back from the dead, largely because I wanted to buy it. I was like, I don’t care what I just said because the audience wanted him to come back. I would’ve been like, that’s true. Let’s get on with it. All right, Jack. But I think that it was a mistake to have him never fully come back into top shape, both mentally or physically, at least in this movie. I hope it’s over. I hope they get to make a third film and I’m so nervous about it. But I hope if they get to make a third film, he’s he’s back on top because that’s what everybody wants to see. Because, again, after watching the first film or part of what makes Kingsman, I think, such a unique and satisfying film action film is the idea of seeing someone like Colin Firth decked out in a gorgeous suit, just a gentleman’s gentleman having these amazing top notch better than most action sequences.

And that element was really missing from this movie. Also missing from the movie was the father son dynamic between Harry Hart and EXI. Instead, they swapped it out for another emotional core, and that was the romance between EXI and Princess Tildy, which I have to admit I did enjoy quite a bit. Actually, I thought it was sweet to see a male fantasy based on marrying a princess because it’s usually the reverse about a woman wanting to marry a prince. So I thought that was nice and I thought until the dynamic was really great, I thought it was a realness to it as well. So I liked that. I liked it a lot. But you know what? Fathers give sons advice about romance all the time. And just like Harry Hart helped EXI become a gentleman in the first film, I think it would be nice to see him at least give some guidance with the romance here. That would have been really nice. But again, he was too out of it to do that and so they lost that element. Now speaking of Princess Tildy, I felt that maybe their serious relationship here they even got married was meant to take the edge off the end of the first film.

And it does. I don’t know if they needed to do that. I think that it makes this movie too crowded. But and also especially because they did it again by going too far with the Poppy Delevingne scene, who, by the way, is Cara Delevingne sister. But anyway, I enjoy a steamy sex scene as much as any of you. I saw a number of people in my non spoiler review saying, like, don’t be such a prude. Grace, typical reaction to when I comment about stuff like this, but you haven’t seen the scene right now. Again, steamy sex scenes. They’re great. I love Game of Thrones. I’ve never had a complaint about Game of Thrones, for instance, but I don’t need to follow X’s fingers and close up down Poppy Delevingne stomach down to her crotch and her underwear and inside her. That movie actually does that. It’s just too vulgar and too juvenile, you know, I mean, you can practically hear Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman giggling from when they wrote it. I just I did not like it.

Now, what did I absolutely love about the film? Like, I have no problems with. Well, obviously, Elton John. What a cameo.

Perhaps one of the best, if not the best celebrity cameos of all time. I put that up up there with Daniel Craig in The Force Awakens. And Daniel Craig only gets points off because very few people know it’s Daniel Craig. He’s the stormtrooper that Daisy Ridley uses her mind powers on. It’s fabulous if you know it’s him. And so you can go back and watch that scene. You can hear Daniel Craig speech pattern.

But this was so good and he was in so much of the movie, I had not expected that. I loved all of his scenes. I loved it when he was yelling at that scientist minion in the back of Poppy’s demonstration. I thought that was great. I also love by the way, Elton John’s got a fabulous actor, but he’s so game. So I just thought, you know, like like you were like, you’re not great, but I love your enthusiasm. And this is really making this fabulous. I loved him running around in his feather costume at the end of the movie, you know, his kick with the head replacement. That was fabulous. I loved how he saved Hart from Poppy’s robot dog. That was brilliant. You know, Elton John, friend. That’s great. And I love it when Poppy said Kill Elton John. It was fabulous.

And I also loved his line to Harry hard about a backstage pass a of hard saves the World. That was a very clever callback to the end of the last movie that I thought was more in line with what Kingsman is supposed to be. That was great, although because Harry was a little out of it, I don’t think Colin Firth kept up his end of that exchange. But Elton John, Elton John more than sold it. It was great. I love his little air kiss to convert. That was great then. As for Julianne Moore’s Poppy, I loved what she did here. She was a very strong female villain, which is unusual to see, very type A, I like that.

And I also thought she was delightfully goofy, her naming Charlie’s new arm arm again. Great, and it came out of nowhere, but she has so little screen time that you really only get to know her in broad strokes, whereas with Vallentine I totally got who he was as a character.

I understood his motivations. He just seemed fully formed as a character, whereas POPI is more of a caricature than Halle Berry’s ginger ale. What a character. I was so glad that at the end of the movie she achieved agent status. And one of the main reasons I want a third film, not only because I love this franchise, is that I need to see her horn rimmed tech nerd in the field. I think it could be as fun as seeing Colin Firth in the field. Now, I know Kalbarri made other action movies, but I think Halle Berry really became this character. And I think that she would really sell these action sequences in a unique, unique way that would make them stand out. I really want to see it happen. So again, I left the theater wanting a third film. But if you watch Kingsman one and I highly recommend that you do, you can see that Kingsman two is almost a placeholder in some ways just to keep the franchise going. But they need to realize where it does not stand on par with the first one and fix these mistakes. You would think the exact same creative team would would know what they were doing. But, you know, I think that some things have escaped them. So I hope that they really pay attention to the criticisms and they don’t write it off. As you know, I’ve seen Matthew Vaughn already criticizing the advertising for this movie. I hope he takes the criticism to heart because it comes with love.

Someone who loves, loves, loves the idea of the Kingsmen.

And I wish they hadn’t shot Harry Hart in the head. That is a mistake that continues to haunt this franchise and haunt the sequel. Because if they hadn’t and if they just left Princess Tilda as a one night stand, I mean, some of you said it’s a commentary on Bond movies. Fine. Let it be a commentary on Bond movies. And it goes a little bit too far because that’s what this movie’s supposed to do, just like actually outright kills people. Right. Fine. Then they could have hit the ground running with the sequel. It’s just a team up between the Kingsmen in The Statesman with Harry and ex’s father son relationship progressing. There was just too much other stuff there, too much on their plate. All right. So what did you think of Kingsman The Golden Circle? This is the spoiler review. So write anything you want down below. I look forward to continuing the conversation and you can check out some more videos right now from.

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