Review of Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Tragically horrendous followup to one of the best send ups of the spy genre in the last few years. Loaded with dumbed down humor, dull dialogue that lacks all the wit and charm of the first, an abominably bad villain, horrible pacing, and a bevy of excess plot lines that were ultimately pointless and terribly dull. This is not even to mentioned the wasted opportunities of indulging in the new characters by focusing on extraneous plot points and silly "side quests".

The actors do the best with what they have but it is not enough to save the film from falling into dire repetition or, worse, complete irrelevance. To top it all off the film is overly long given what it offers up. Failure defined. Shame.