After the Kingsman's headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, an allied spy organization in the United States is discovered. These two elite secret agencies must band togeth... Read allAfter the Kingsman's headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, an allied spy organization in the United States is discovered. These two elite secret agencies must band together to defeat a common enemy.After the Kingsman's headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, an allied spy organization in the United States is discovered. These two elite secret agencies must band together to defeat a common enemy.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 14 nominations
- Angel
- (as Tom Benedict-Knight)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFinal film of Björn Granath (The King of Sweden).
- GoofsWhile descending on the out-of-control ski lift, the high-speed spinning of the lift would have caused it to act as a gyroscope. Rather than swinging back and forth like it was it would have stayed in a fixed position.
- Quotes
Elton John: Now, go off and save the world.
Harry Hart: If I save the world, can I have two tickets to your next concert?
Elton John: Darling, if you save the world, you can have a backstage pass.
- Crazy creditsThere is a statement in the closing credits: "A dope thanks to Samuel L. Jackson." Jackson had played Richmond Valentine in the previous Kingsman film.
- Alternate versionsIn Singapore, before the film could receive an NC16 classification the film was edited in order to remove two utterances of religious profanity which was deemed to exceeded the BFC's set Classification Guidelines. Under these Classification Guidelines, "language that denigrates religion or is religiously profane" is not allowed for all ratings.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Conan: The Cast of 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle' (2017)
- SoundtracksTake Me Home, Country Roads
Written by Taffy Nivert (as Taffy Danoff), Bill Danoff (as William Danoff) & John Denver
Published by BMG Rights Management UK Ltd., a BMG Company
Published by Reservoir Media Music
Performed by Matthew Margeson (as Matt Margeson)
I really loved the first film. It was unique, original, and just damn fun. Matthew Vaughn really has that knack. I went in with great expectations for the sequel and walked out really liking it, though I didn't love it.
From a technical standpoint this film looks amazing. Matthew Vaughn can craft great action sequences and film them with a hand-held camera where everything remains in plain sight. His special effects and visual effects teams are spot on in handling such scenes, and the set design is also really cool, especially the headquarters for the Statesman.
The acting is also really good. Colin Firth, Taron Edgerton, Mark Strong, Jeff Bridges, Channing Tatum, and even Halle Berry who I don't even like as an actress turn in really good performances. You can tell they are all having fun with their roles which they should because it's a ridiculous action movie, and I think that really let some of the weaker links like Berry to shine. Julianne Moore is also an actress I don't like, and I did think she was overselling her performance a bit.
My problem with the movie has nothing to do with the technical aspects like direction, camera work, acting, editing, or visual effects. What it really boils down to is the writing and how some story elements are handled.
For instance, it feels like this film is trying way to hard to harken back to what made the original so great without coming up with any fresh ideas of its own. This movie takes everything everyone loved about the first one, puts it in this movie, and makes it bigger by trying to be better. Yeah, it is bigger...but bigger does mean better. An example of this is towards the end of the film when there is an action scene that is trying to replicate the church scene from the first one, except the scale of the action scene in this one is bigger. There were a lot of scenes like that in here and I don't think Vaughn really thought of how to make things better while still being bigger. The villain was also kind of a drag. It was just Samuel L Jackson from the first one, but instead of him it's Julianne Moore. Her overall plan just comes across as ranging from silly and ridiculous to pretentious and overstuffed. That's where the film really falters and at times it does have some pacing issues especially towards the second act. There's some stuff with Elton John that both works and doesn't work, and that switches up the pacing at times.
Like I said, there is nothing wrong technically with this movie. I just think it needed some rewrites particularly with its villain and its story.
Overall I am going to give "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" a B.
For a more in depth analysis of the film you can check out my review of the film on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tooIzhvdbmM
- TheJediWay9
- Sep 20, 2017
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Kingsman 2
- Filming locations
- Courmayeur, Aosta, Valle d'Aosta, Italy(snow sequence, Skyway rope)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $104,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $100,234,838
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $39,023,010
- Sep 24, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $410,902,662
- Runtime2 hours 21 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1