Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: September 22, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
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20
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
IGNJim VejvodaSep 18, 2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is as cheeky, cartoonish, and crazy as its predecessor, but it’s also commendably unafraid to demolish what had come before it if it’s in service of the story. The new dynamic between Eggsy and his team is great, and the Statesman prove amusing counterparts to these gentlemen spies from across the pond. Read full review
80
EmpireDan JolinSep 18, 2017
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. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 20, 2017
With its inventively nutso action, youthful vibe, and subversive topicality, the “Kingsman” franchise feels more relevant than even Daniel Craig’s James Bond. Screen espionage doesn’t come any hipper these days. Read full review
70
The AtlanticChristopher OrrJan 9, 2018
The movie is too long, too violent, too silly—too everything. Yet for those who enjoyed the original Kingsman, it is a more than adequate second act. To put it another way: first time satire, second time farce. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthySep 18, 2017
This fleet-footed, glibly imaginative international romp stays on its toes and keeps its wits about it most of the time, with entertaining and pointedly U.S.-friendly cast additions. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisSep 20, 2017
Like its predecessor, everything about the stylized Kingsman: The Golden Circle teeters just a little over the top: the elegant international production values, the perfectly tailored Savile Row attire, the hyperviolent action sequences, the depiction of something more than just an innocent hint of sex. Read full review
67
The PlaylistKimber MyersSep 18, 2017
Vaughn’s film is overflowing with big set pieces, but all those epic action sequences amount to a running time clocking nearly two and a half hours – and not much else. Like fireworks, they’re awe-inspiring while you’re watching, but there’s little left to marvel at after the show’s over. Read full review
67
IndieWireKate ErblandSep 18, 2017
It’s fun, but it’s blockbuster overkill after an already-crowded summer season. Read full review
63
Washington PostStephanie MerrySep 21, 2017
“Kingsman” is essentially a live-action cartoon, one that aims for an audible reaction and little else. That may not be the world’s loftiest goal, but whether it results in a gagging eww or a chuckle, it’s a plan that usually succeeds. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 21, 2017
True Kingsman fans will appreciate that director Matthew Vaughn reacted to digs at "The Secret Service" for being gratuitously violent, sexually adolescent and politically reactionary by laying all of it on three times thicker. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 21, 2017
There’s fun to be had but it’s not consistent and at times it’s disappointing how certain scenes play out. Read full review
63
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonSep 20, 2017
The movie needs an editor, or a bartender, to remind the director when he’s hit the two-hour mark: Last orders, Mr. Vaughn. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenSep 19, 2017
Sequelitis has Vaughn in its grip. The follow-up to his 2014 hyperviolent, boundlessly inventive spy-movie sendup gives the impression it’s trying a little too hard to surpass its predecessor. Read full review
60
The GuardianGwilym MumfordSep 19, 2017
It’s a film so cartoonishly outsized that it almost renders the first film restrained by comparison Read full review
60
Village VoiceBilge EbiriSep 18, 2017
The movie has its moments, but the bloat and the blandness take their toll. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatt MaytumSep 18, 2017
Fun, fleeting entertainment if you’re after more of the same, but fails to carve out any fresh ground. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerSep 18, 2017
This isn’t quite solid-gold filmmaking. But it might be gold-plated. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoSep 18, 2017
Vaughn sticks to what he knows with his Kingsman sequel but rarely ups the ante, making this a fun-enough entry into an already-too-familiar franchise. Read full review
55
The VergeAdi RobertsonSep 21, 2017
The Golden Circle isn’t strong on brains or heart, but it has no shortage of guts. Read full review
51
Paste MagazineWill LeitchSep 28, 2017
For all its supposed irreverence, the movie feels product-tested to the moon; there isn’t a single shot that isn’t trying to sell you something. The movie also has some of the creeping bro grossness of some of Vaughn’s other films. Read full review
50
VoxEmily VanDerWerffSep 22, 2017
Just like the first movie, the film’s politics are all over the place in a way that should be fun but ends up feeling distracting. Yet it’s hard to hate this movie too much. It has a weird generosity toward its audience. It keeps giving and giving and giving, until you’re overstuffed. It’s a Thanksgiving feast movie, where you’re vaguely impressed at all of the effort, even if the individual elements leave something to be desired. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 21, 2017
A wild, reckless, gleefully immoral work of pop nihilism. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskySep 20, 2017
Dumber and less stylish than its predecessor, Kingsman: The Secret Service, the cartoonish secret-agent pastiche Kingsman: The Golden Circle is also even more of an incoherent right-wing text, an exaggeration of the James Bond movies’ violence, fashion sense, and sex that keeps trying to pass off its ham-fisted conservative attitudes as smirking nihilism. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSep 20, 2017
In a movie as happy to resurrect characters as rub them out, nothing is of consequence, and the glibness grows numbing. Read full review
50
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonSep 19, 2017
It’s a big, vulgar, Saturday morning cartoon of a film, to both its benefit and detriment. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 18, 2017
It is all aggressively stylized, abusively fast-paced and ear-bleedingly loud, relying so heavily on CGI that nothing — not one thing — seems to correspond to the real world. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 21, 2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a tarnished sequel demolishing the original's balderdash charm in tumble-dry camera moves, CGI slosh and Elton John f-bombs. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatySep 18, 2017
If the first Kingsman, at its best, felt like a dry martini of a joke, then this one is more Jack and Mountain Dew — unsubtle, unrefreshing, and unnecessary. Read full review
40
SlateSam AdamsSep 23, 2017
Vaughn hasn’t only run out of things to say but people to hate, and without that underlying aggression, the movie feels like it’s just going through the motions. Better luck next time, bruv. Read full review
40
Time OutAnna SmithSep 23, 2017
There’s plenty of action—and laughs here and there—but when a repeated cameo from Elton John is the best thing in a movie like this, you know you’re in trouble. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangSep 21, 2017
It pulls off the impressive feat of feeling both hyperactive and lazy. This is hardly the first time a major Hollywood franchise has succumbed to narrative flabbiness, or invested in grand, elaborate world building with the kind of devotion that far outstrips the viewer’s interest. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 21, 2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a movie in search of a reason to exist. Despite a needlessly excessive running time, it never finds one. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 18, 2017
As kinetic as its predecessor — and just as belaboured — Kingsman: The Golden Circle serves up another batch of hyper-stylised action, irreverent humour and sharp threads, resulting in a film that’s not nearly as cool as it thinks it is. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 21, 2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle offers everything — several bored Oscar winners, two scenes featuring death by meat grinder, Elton John mugging in close-up — except a good time. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 21, 2017
If you liked the original, the best way to preserve that memory is to stay away from this sequel. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineJake ColeSep 20, 2017
The hollow grandeur of the film's action only gives the proceedings a glib undertone that also undermines the rare occasions of earnestness that the heroes exhibit toward fallen comrades. Read full review
30
New York Daily NewsEthan SacksSep 19, 2017
Unfortunately, overkill is the order of the day — and it takes a toll. There are too many supporting characters, too much exposition, too many gadgets, too many “Matrix”-inspired, slow-motion fight sequences, too many plot holes instead of twists and too ham-handed a political message about the war on drugs. Read full review
30
TheWrapRobert AbeleSep 18, 2017
Bloated, inexplicably un-entertaining. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSep 20, 2017
Despite all the mayhem, “The Golden Circle” often feels slow and belabored, particularly in its middle section, when inspiration is nowhere to be found, and the chaos seems to be there just for the sake of being there. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 18, 2017
That’s what Kingsman: The Golden Circle is like — recycled Bond gags and settings, sophomoric humor, and maybe an hour of dead time scattered throughout a two hour and fifteen minute mess. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinSep 25, 2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is the bloated, campy, thoroughly stupid sequel to the 2014 action thriller "Kingsman: The Secret Service." Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinSep 19, 2017
This crazily overlong and tiresome follow-up...doesn’t seem to have the first idea what to do with itself – not least when it comes to its much-vaunted all-star cast, the majority of whom are barely even in it. Read full review
16
The Film StageConor O'DonnellSep 28, 2017
Taken on it’s own merits — or lack thereof – Kingsman: The Golden Circle feels like being trapped in a dorm room, while a bunch of frat bros watch the first Kingsman and tell you it’s the greatest movie ever made. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comGlenn KennySep 21, 2017
It’s violence for cowardly voyeurs who want to make the people who annoy them just shut up in a way that’s silent, sterile, and thoroughly humiliating to the victim. Read full review
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