<i>Kingsman: The Golden Circle</i> Is More Farce Than Satire
While the sequel shares some of its predecessor’s strengths, this installment of the comic-action franchise is broader and less original.
When Kingsman: The landed in theaters two years ago, it was a surprising, if modestly guilty, pleasure. For more than 30 years—going back at least as far as —James Bond had been derided within his own franchise as a “dinosaur,” for his tailored suits, sexist attitudes, and proclivity for violence. thus served as a kind of for the Bondian gentleman spy, resurrecting him from prehistoric Connery DNA discovered in fossilized amber somewhere. It was, as I , “reactionary bordering on retrograde bordering on reprobate [but] also a tremendous amount of fun.”
