Should I Go or Just Say No
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
As a fan of the first Kingsman movie, I came into this newest installment of the Kingsman world expecting wonderful things. My expectations were both meet and let down at the same time and I walked out of the movie theater a little confused at my emotional reaction to this one.
The action scenes in The Golden Circle are good, really there are some great sequences, just maybe not enough of them to make up for some of the other issues. The opening that contains a wonderful car chase scene reminiscent of Ronan and Baby Driver more than holds it own. However, where the first Kingsman movie did a good job of balancing the action, British Comedy, and story line; The Golden Circle tries to take it to another level and for me, it lost itself in the process.
There are way too many crude jokes in this movie that just did not seem to fit or really need to be there. Also the movie took a very graphic sexually suggestive swing in the middle that also seemed to be out of place and even the characters of the movie seem uncomfortable with it.
Taron Egerton is back as Eggsy and kills it. Mark Strong is also back as Merlin and for me, blew it out of the water. Channing Tatum, Hallie Berry, and Jeff Bridges are all new characters in this movie and while they diid a good job of showing some depth in their characters, there was not enough of them. Pedro Pascal, who is best know for Game of Thrones, has the biggest part as a new character named Whisky and he is part of what lost if for me.
Both Pedro and Channings character Tequila are cast as the “American Idiot” roles and are the butt of quite a few American jokes. While their actual characters are far from idiots, this movie is at its heart a British Comedy so any American is going to be stereotypical. That being said, they went a bit far with this joke line.
Unfortunately I am not really mentioning Julianne Moore because her character was not written well enough for her. Also maybe because she was following a superb role by Samual Jackson, there was nothing she could have done better with what she was given in The Golden Circle.
Now we get to the question at hand, “Should I go or just say no”.
GO
If you were a fan of the first Kingsman movie, or action movies in general then go see this one and enjoy. Just realize it may not be all that you are hoping for.
Also I strongly suggest parental guidance on this one. I was planning on taking my daughter to this movie prior to my seeing it but now I am having serious second thoughts because of the sexual content and the bloody violence.
Thats all for now, hope to be back soon.
