As you may have guessed, getting out to see new movies has been pretty difficult but I did manage it at least once this last month. Eggsy (Taran Egerton) is back as Agent Galahad, full-fledged operative for the Kingsmen. His life is going pretty well, all things considered, until an unexpected attack on Kingsman headquarters and all known residences of operatives destroys the organization. Eggsy and Merlin (Mark Strong) are the only two apparent survivors, so they have to enact the Doomsday Protocol, which turns out to be a bottle of whiskey from Statesman distillery. They investigate and discover a sister intelligence organization in Kentucky. Meanwhile, the head of an enormous drug cartel, Poppy (Julianne Moore), announces that all drug users have been infected with a virus that will kill them if she doesn't receive immunity and immediate legalization from the President of the United States (Bruce Greenwood). With the help of Agents Whiskey (Pedro Pascal) and Ginger (Halle Berry), Galahad and Merlin must track down the antidote to Poppy's virus before a significant chunk of the population succumbs to death.
The Golden Circle is not as bad as people have been saying. It had an almost impossible job of living up to its predecessor so it did what it could. It succeeds mostly in how it expands the world and in the character development of Eggsy. Everything else is just icing. I think it's also helpful that its coming a few years after the first one. I would suggest the third part (because you know there'll be a third) follow that trend so that the jokes and the violence don't become grating and expected. You have to give the audience a chance to miss you before you come back with part three.
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