If you don’t take your spy movies too seriously, the second installment of Kingsman, which is based on the Kingsman comics created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar, is a fun caper to keep the family entertained these school holidays.
Spy comedy Kingsman: The Golden Circle starts a year after the events of Kingsman: The Secret Service with Harry Hart believed to be dead.
Eggsy Unwin has officially joined the Kingsman and taken his mentor Harry’s moniker Galahad.
The team must now partner with a similar American agency, Statesman, to free the world from the clutches of Poppy Adams and her drug cartel “The Golden Circle”.
However, Poppy has an inside man (or rather arm) in the form of ex-Kingsman recruit Charlie Hesketh’s cybernetic arm which is detached during a car chase across London, lands up inside Eggsy’s car and hacks into the Kingsman servers through the computer system of the car.
Poppy uses the information to launch a volley of missiles that destroy the Kingsman headquarters and wipe out all of the agents in Britain, aside from Eggsy and Merlin, Kingsman’s tech support.
Drowning their sorrows, Eggsy and Merlin stumble across a bottle of bourbon which surprisingly (to them) tips them off to an emergency protocol which in turn leads them to Statesman, an American private intelligence service posing as a Bourbon whiskey distillery in Kentucky.
There, they discover that Harry survived his shooting thanks to Statesman technology, but is suffering from amnesia.
Working with Statesmen Tequila and Whiskey, Eggsy and Harry must save the world from Poppy’s evil clutches and defeat two particularly mean mechanical canines.
Familiar faces – Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong and Edward Holcroft are joined on this mission by newcomers Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, Elton John (as one of Poppy’s victims), Channing Tatum and Jeff Bridges in a great sequel which adds to the storyline of the first movie while developing both the characters and their storylines.
It isn’t strictly necessary to have watched the first movie to keep track of this one but its always fun to make new friends before you catch up with them so why not make a family night of it and watch these two great movies back-to-back this Easter?
