Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: September 22, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
20
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
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
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