As ultraviolent as the first film, and as ultrasmutty, The Golden Circle will leave the Kingsfans grinning, even if its characters have less growing to do this time around.
Fun, fleeting entertainment if you’re after more of the same, but fails to carve out any fresh ground.
An exhausting, exhilarating watch.
As sequels go, it's fair to say that The Golden Circle lacks the novelty of the first film and doesn't have quite as much in the way of charm, but there's enough here to ensure that fans won't be disappointed.
Bloated, artistically impotent and utterly bereft of ideas.
Enormous energy is expended but it still feels at the end as if the filmmakers are going around in exactly the same circles as at the beginning.
The overblown sequel to the first Kingsman film pays too much attention to a third outing of the franchise, sacrificing the original’s anarchic charm in the process.
Superficially entertaining but disappointingly hollow beneath all the exhausting razzle-dazzle.
The whole film is a knowing sneer of a movie that shrugs off its plot holes along with a particularly unsavoury attitude to violence and a tendency to use female characters as the decorative punchline to jokes.
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