I hope that it isn’t long until I can watch this movie again and get this review out of the way. But I do like this film and think that it will be nice to see it again to review for this blog. It shouldn’t be too long until you see this post, hopefully. Let’s get to the review in question.
Watch this as an alternative to reading this post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MvYNxwzSNI
We begin with the music of Country Road playing in the background. Despite the lyrics, this film will not be heading to West Virginia. Eggsy is coming out of the Kingsman shop when he sees Charlie from the last film. At gunpoint, Eggsy is forced into a car where they fight. In the car, Charlie is revealed to have a robot arm and seems immune from electrocution this time around. The driver of the car is knocked out in the ensuing fight with Eggsy taking the wheel and Charlie gone, for now.
Eggsy is still being chased in the car he’s now in control of by three enemy vehicles. He talks to Merlin wanting a route cleared so he can take these people out. When given permission to fire, three missiles take them out, but police are following him as well. Eggsy doesn’t have a windscreen, but does hold his breath to get to the rendezvous point. Now while I could believe that in fiction alone a car could work underwater, I still wouldn’t believe it would with a partially blown windshield or even with working windows that are rolled down at the time.
While police clear the park, Eggsy has an important date that he has to get to that can’t wait. He doesn’t stay for the debrief yet. He jumps into sewer water where he meets with Princess Tilly from the last movie. But during this time, the arm from Charlie activates material in the car pertaining to various other Kingsman agents. Eggsy, his girlfriend, and other friends hang out for now.
Meanwhile… We get to the ruins of a jungle where a woman named Poppy talks about her drug empire and how it could be a monopoly. I have the feeling that she should go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. She controls something known at The Golden Circle. While talking to a new man that is here named Angel, she tells him that the old man is bad. Using her robot dogs, she helps the new man, Angel, put the old one in the meat grinder while using this man’s now grinded body as meat. Angel then has to eat the old man.
Eggsy is seen at his home and talks to Tilly some. They talk some about Harry from the last movie and how they miss him since he died. Going back to headquarters, we learn how the electrocution of Charlie back at Valentine’s headquarters allowed him to survive the head explosions by damaging his implant which blew up his arm and damaged his vocal cords instead. They had footage of this and still need to figure out what all has happened to Charlie since then.
Back at Poppy’s headquarters, Angel is forced to eat the dead man so he can officially join the organization in question. At his official dinner with the king and queen, Eggsy impresses others with a lot of information that the king asks him about which is revealed to be Roxy feeding him information.
I am a bit confused by something related to Tilly. Who was that man in the first film with her? If we are lead to believe that it wasn’t her father who joined the side of Valentine and died in the first film? Or is there a new king? Did anyone else notice that and get confused by that? But I believe that the person who was with Tilly in the last movie was someone unrelated to her. It is hard to keep track of.
One of Eggsy’s friends accesses his tech by accident which Eggsy notices, leading to a misunderstanding with the king. During this time, it is revealed that all of the Kingsman are taken out by missiles due to Charlie’s info with all of the addresses taken out. Poppy and Charlie are working together and he gets a new robot arm. Maybe this cold unfeeling robot arm is the parent of Zim.
Eggsy goes to where the headquarters is upon learning that nearly everyone else is dead. Merlin is alive still since his address wasn’t targeted and Eggsy is only alive since he wasn’t at home at the time. They go to where the doomsday protocol is as apparently this sort of thing has happened before once which lead to this protocol taking place. All they see is an alcohol bottle. After drinking a lot of it, they make their way to a distillery in Kentucky, having figured out the message.
While trying to find a secret way into this place, they are confronted by a man who doesn’t buy their story that they are tailors since they used tech to get in here. He knocks them out. Tied up, he thinks that they are here for a rescue mission. He pours alcohol on them and threatens to burn them. After they boldly defy this person, Harry is revealed to be alive and behind the door. At this moment, a woman named Ginger Ale comes before Harry is shot since their story checks out and it is revealed that Kingsman is the doomsday protocol for this organization like they are to Kingsman. What would happen, though, if both were taken out?
This organization is revealed to be Statesman while the man they were talking to is Tequila. While we see Harry is in there, he doesn’t remember either Eggsy or Merlin. He thinks that he still studies all sorts of butterflies. It was revealed that a year ago, Harry was taken by the Statesmen and given alpha gel to recover from his head shot. But this gave him amnesia as he reverted to his younger self. He has been stuck there as they try to find a way to recover his memories.
Poppy is revealed to have Elton John in her captivity. He has a blue rash on his face and she wants to know where he got it from. He says that it was from Angel, the new recruit. She does not like this. Back at Statesman headquarters, they talk to their leader, Champaign, who wonders who wanted to take out the Kingsman. They believe that it could be a drug cartel named Golden Circle. While Tequila is ready to take the mission right now, he has to go to sick bay since he also has this blue rash. They go with an agent named Whiskey instead.
After a brief scene with Tilly, Eggsy goes to a music festival where Charlie’s ex is at. He needs to put a tracker gel on her in order to get more intel. He has to put it on a mucus membrane and not just any part of her body so he might have to at least touch her vagina. After Whiskey tries to get her first, Eggsy does some lines with spirit animals and gets to spend time with her.
Poppy reveals more of her motivations for why she is a drug lord. (Are there women drug lords? There could be.) She says that sugar is more additive and likely to kill you than drugs, but it is legal. While she has a lot of money made from the drug business, she can’t claim credit and wants fame by making it legal. It is revealed that the golden circle might be poisoning its own members, but they can’t figure out why. Since Angel was the reason that Elton John is suffering from the new drug, Poppy gets her robot dogs to kill him. They go after Elton, but aren’t programmed to attack him as he is labeled a friend.
At the music festival with Clara, the ex of Charlie, Eggsy has doubts about getting together with her since it means that he would be cheating on Tilde. He leaves Clara for a moment to talk to Tilde which causes a rift in their relationship. He claims that he wants to be with her, but isn’t sure about marriage since as a spy, he would need to stay out of the public eye and thus can’t be a prince. She cuts communication short as he isn’t sure that he wants to go through with this. But then he notices the golden circle tattoo on Clara’s back and does what he needs to. He is not able to communicate with Tilde again as she does not yet want any further communication.
Eggsy is upset by this and setbacks to restore the memory of Harry. They already tried to drown him like the recruitment to Kingsman did with the hopes that his spy instincts would kick in and he’d be able to save himself like we saw Eggsy do in the previous movie (check the blog’s archives for this post if you have not already read it or better yet: watch the movie for yourself). But at this bar, Eggsy gets an idea on what to do to restore Harry’s memories. He brings in a dog like the kind his girlfriend got him (to replace the one that blew up in the missile explosion) or that Harry used to have and then asks if he will shoot the dog. Harry then remembers various things and the old Harry that he told Merlin wasn’t coming back is, in fact, coming back. While he wants to warn of the threat of Valentine, Eggsy tells him that there is much to catch up on.
The group spends time at a bar and a person insults Harry’s eye patch that he wears from the wound since that eye is missing. Harry seeks to teach this person some manners like in the first movie. But his coordination is off so Whiskey takes up the fight instead, showing off a special whip that these people have. Harry wonders what is off with his mind as he sees butterflies a lot and isn’t yet back to his full strength. After the fight is over, Poppy takes over the airwaves.
Under the former guise of a pharmaceutical company, Poppy reveals her true intentions as people who have used her drugs are infected with a blue rash that turns into mania or dancing before it turns into paralysis then death. But she has the cure that will prevent this. Many are now infected and she talks to the president of the United States directly asking that drugs be legalized while she and her crew get immunity from prosecution for this scheme. Some are already seen as infected like some of Eggsy’s friends and it is revealed thusly that Tequila is affected by this.
News reports delve into who Poppy is and hospitals are at full capacity. Tequila is frozen as they look for a cure. The president talks about looking like they are meeting her demands, but wants what he calls the druggies to die. Statesman has a feed on this and is convinced that they need to do this despite the fact that these drug users broke the law. Harry and Eggsy, both codenamed Callahan, both go with Whiskey to where they learn from Clara (who accidentally got herself infected) where the cure is when she calls her ex on the phone. The president declares martial law.
At this new place, Harry, who is still off with coordination, stays at the control panel to assist his team. At the ski resort in question, they find the cure, but are made when both Clara and Charlie recognize Eggsy. They seem to escape away to a gondola or device like that when Charlie overrides the system and sends them spinning. Whiskey is able to help them escape with his magic lasso, but things are still out of control until they find a way to stop in front of older people.
At the cabin where they are meeting, Eggsy and Whiskey have the antidote when people show up with guns right when Harry arrives. In this moment, Whiskey knocks down Eggsy which breaks the antidote that Eggsy was holding. While Whiskey then goes out to attack people with his lasso, Harry is convinced that the veil was dropped on purpose and that Whiskey and even all of Kingsman are corrupt. While a second round of criminals prepare to attack, Harry shots Whiskey in the head. After taking in some of the gunfire, Harry uses a special explosive. Eggsy is still mad at Harry at he uses the alpha gel on Whiskey so that he can recover from the head wound.
Eggsy wants to get back up to the resort with more of the antidote in it. Clara is still there while Charlie looks at her. Charlie blows the place up with Clara inside, which Eggsy notices. With the known antidote destroyed, Eggsy turns to the one lead that he has, the name he was called when he showed up to this place. Fox, a woman who works for the president, is effected by the drug itself.
Ginger reveals to Merlin that she wants to do more than just tech support with Whiskey having always voted against her when a position comes up. While Eggsy had told Ginger and Merlin that Whiskey was caught in the crossfire, which got Whiskey shot, Harry reveals his belief that there is corruption within the Kingsman and Merlin now knows that Harry shot Whiskey. Eggsy gets a call from Tildy which reveals that she has the blue rash. He promises to marry her as they fly off.
The president gets the demand from Poppy, but doesn’t plan to do anything to save the people. During this time, Whiskey awakes and, knowing what to do this time, has his mind fixed right away. Getting what he needs to out of Ginger, he goes to where the Kingsman agents are. On the flight there, Eggsy reveals to Harry that he is in a relationship with hints that a previous unknown woman that he lost in some way sent him in a spiral. Harry admits that one has to have someone live for to make life itself worth living in the first place.
At Poppy’s place in Cambodia, Eggsy steps on one of the landmines there. Merlin is able to switch places with him, distracting the guards and blowing up the mine, killing himself as a result in the process. At this point, the Kingsman agents go into the hideout, taking out many of the agents there. Charlie then fights with Eggsy as one of the robot dogs attacks while the other one is charging. Elton John is able to save Harry for a moment before Harry is able to take control of the situation again. Eggsy is able to take control of Charlie’s arm before he kills his once teammate who knows nothing of the code.
Alone with Poppy, they drug her and convince her to give them the code. As she dies, she gets the code in question. But Whiskey arrives and reveals that his wife died in a convenience store shootout that happened because of meth users. Since he has a personal vendetta against drugs as a result of this, he attacks both Harry and Eggsy, wanting the cure taken out and not used as a result. After a struggle, they are able to get control of the situation by killing Whiskey. This releases the cure to everyone.
In the wrap up of everything, it is revealed that the president was impeached and he is escorted out of the Oval Office and White House in handcuffs. Ginger is then promoted to being Agent Whiskey. We then see Eggsy get married to Princess Tildy in question. What appears to be a new man is seen showing up to tailor store where Kingsman is at.
That’s all for this movie. What else is there to say? A lot of people didn’t like it and I can understand some of the points. I mean, the Kingsman weren’t really a part of the film like they should be as we get Roxy taken out quite early. The resurrection of Harry, it seems, removed the states of the death that he brought to the first movie. The villain didn’t have as good a motive this time around and it kind of sucks for me to see the final fight of the movie be with someone unrelated largely to the main villain aspect of the film in question.
But I do think that this film is better than some give it credit for. I mean, we get to see a lot more of the development in the world of this franchise with more information brought up that delved into Kingsman the way we wouldn’t have otherwise. Some characters were more complicated than we are used to having in the world of these movies with clear motivations not always cut and dry who is good and bad, although some are clearly bad in the end. I like this movie and suggest you watch it to. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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