First things first.Kingsman: The Golden Circleisnota good movie.

Its rare to see so much thrown at the screen and so little of it sticking.

And, for the first half at least, it worked.

KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE

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ButGolden Circlejust feels lazy and self-aware.

Poppy has laced her product with a virus that turns its users into dancing fools with blue spider veins.

Im not getting into how a certain character psst, see the photo above returns from the dead.

Okay, it involves amnesia.

Instead, theres just more of everything else, including Vaughns leering boys-will-be-boys humor.