The first film seemed to find a unique sense of style and dark humour whilst managing to stick to a reasonable plot and still operate within its own zany rule book This second effort has some clever ideas, but many of the set pieces, even by Kingsman standards seems excessive, pushing the cartoon mayhem too far and some are just plain misses. Still, plenty to enjoy, particularly Mark Strong's singing and the climactic fight sequences. Part three needs tightening up.

If you go into this film looking for a light hearted story and characters that don't take themselves to seriously then you will be entertained. It's no James Bond, but it doesn't try to be. Some of the action sequences are brilliant and ridiculously creative. The "shaky-cam" action works really well. I've seen loads of negative reviews, many truely unjust. Just a entertaining watch.

I felt like they were slapping me with one hand and using the other to pay me to ignore the burning on my cheek. Maybe this is on me but I expected more than 30 seconds of screen time from Sophie Cookson. She was my main reason for forgiving their having killed off Gazelle in the first one. As a small note, there is a brief flashback of Sofia Boutella, so.... does that even the scales...? The Sophie/Sofia issue aside, you just can't allude to a small gift made at the end of the first film w/o leaving the viewer with the expectation that gift will be repeated. And WTF was with the young Burt Reynolds look? I couldn't decide if it was cool or offensive. If you can get past all that, or just don't care, then the payoff is that this has good eye candy, a decent cast, great action, fantastic FX AND they whip up a few chuckles. This is probably only watchable every 3 - 5 years. At least I now know what isn't in it.

I've genuinely never, ever, quit watching a film before it had ended and I've seen my fair share of some pretty terrible movies (Jesus Superstar comes to mind), but man, this was just awful. Joe's Apartment is the pinnacle of filming achievement compared to this.