ShadowX81
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I saw it tonight. As a massive fan of the first one I was really disappointed. And this has zero to due with it being politically incorrect. Hell, I'm the most anti SJW person you will ever meet. It frankly just isn't a well put together film.
Biggest problem was the pacing. This movie was hitting all the right notes but at all the wrong times. A lot of scenes which could have been awesome fell flat. The movie has a weird habit of combining expository dialouge with fight scenes, with characters having an important conversation while someone is fighting literally in the same room, cutting between the two. It doesn't work at all and both distracts from your ability to give weight to the dialogue in the exposition and take the fight scene seriously.
Characterization also suffers greatly here, as Harry Hart spends most of his time being a lifeless prop with little to say or do. Gone is his elegant intensity and cool demeanor, replaced with long awkward silences and a strange detachment that makes it seem like Colin Firth was busy reciting his grocery list in his head while filming.
The Statesmen also suffer, and don't come close to the near iconic mythology the Kingsman created. While the Kingsman were a bit cliché, they were also really cool; and you wanted to be one. I can't imagine anyone wanting to be a Statesman, composed of mostly negative and fairly obnoxious American stereotypes. The characters themselves were also very underdeveloped, and none of their motivations are clear enough for us to care about any of them. I have no clue why Channing Tatum was even in this movie, as his character is really only in 2 or 3 scenes.
There's also an overly long yet never developed celebrity cameo that doesn't work at all as the celebrity in question isn't an actor nor do they seem interested in being trained to be.
Also one of the most likable characters from the first film is unceremoniously killed off quickly near the beginning, which made no sense considering two from the first film that no one felt strongly about returning stuck around here till the end.
Combine this with a muddled, seemingly pro-narcotic moral to the story and you have the makings of a borderline disaster of a sequel.
Biggest problem was the pacing. This movie was hitting all the right notes but at all the wrong times. A lot of scenes which could have been awesome fell flat. The movie has a weird habit of combining expository dialouge with fight scenes, with characters having an important conversation while someone is fighting literally in the same room, cutting between the two. It doesn't work at all and both distracts from your ability to give weight to the dialogue in the exposition and take the fight scene seriously.
Characterization also suffers greatly here, as Harry Hart spends most of his time being a lifeless prop with little to say or do. Gone is his elegant intensity and cool demeanor, replaced with long awkward silences and a strange detachment that makes it seem like Colin Firth was busy reciting his grocery list in his head while filming.
The Statesmen also suffer, and don't come close to the near iconic mythology the Kingsman created. While the Kingsman were a bit cliché, they were also really cool; and you wanted to be one. I can't imagine anyone wanting to be a Statesman, composed of mostly negative and fairly obnoxious American stereotypes. The characters themselves were also very underdeveloped, and none of their motivations are clear enough for us to care about any of them. I have no clue why Channing Tatum was even in this movie, as his character is really only in 2 or 3 scenes.
There's also an overly long yet never developed celebrity cameo that doesn't work at all as the celebrity in question isn't an actor nor do they seem interested in being trained to be.
Also one of the most likable characters from the first film is unceremoniously killed off quickly near the beginning, which made no sense considering two from the first film that no one felt strongly about returning stuck around here till the end.
Combine this with a muddled, seemingly pro-narcotic moral to the story and you have the makings of a borderline disaster of a sequel.
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