The final time we noticed the gentleman spies of the top-secret Kingsman intelligence company in motion, they’d simply stopped an egomaniacal environmentalist’s plan to halt local weather change via mass assassination. In the long-awaited sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the superspies tackle Poppy (Julianne Moore), a billionaire kitsch aficionado and drug queen-pin trying to legitimize her enterprise by bullying the United States into legalizing medicine.

After Poppy takes out a lot of the Kingsman brokers and their Savile Row suit-shop headquarters with missiles, solely road kid-turned-dapper spy hero Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and tech whiz Merlin (Mark Strong) are left to rebuild the group and—hopefully—save the world. With no time to mourn their losses, the brokers go to the heretofore unknown Statesman company, Kingsman’s American counterpart, which is predicated in a Tennessee whiskey distillery. After a hilarious and impolite encounter with Agent Tequila (Channing Tatum), Eggsy and Merlin are supplied with the assets and American brokers (all code-named after varieties of alcohol and mixers) they should find Poppy and foil her nefarious plans. It’s fairly a crew, too—with Champagne (Jeff Bridges) because the boss, Ginger Ale (Halle Berry) on tech duties, and electric-lasso-wielding Agent Whiskey (Game of Thrones’ Pedro Pascal) as backup within the discipline, wisecracks and motion are assured and capers are certain to ensue.

Director Matthew Vaughn (who additionally co-wrote the script with Jane Goldman) undoubtedly has the finely honed expertise essential to create a rip-roaring, comic-based motion flick for a considerably extra discerning grownup viewers. Like its predecessor, the Kingsman sequel is crammed with tightly choreographed combat sequences, gratuitous violence, swear-laden banter, and over-the-top spy devices and mission shenanigans; it has a captivating cheesiness harking back to one of many extra absurd Bond movies, all whereas offering raucous leisure. However, the film’s overreliance on tried and true gags and straightforward shocks means it doesn’t really feel very unique. In addition, the movie accommodates about 20 minutes of overt political commentary that would have been omitted fully, because it serves no goal besides to bathroom down the story line and lengthen the runtime to 141 minutes (no motion comedy ought to ever exceed two hours).

None of that actually issues, although, when you think about that Kingsman: The Golden Circle continues to be a blast and a half to observe. The settings are enjoyable, the gory motion is nice, and the dialogue is chuckle-worthy. Plus, the performing is on level—Julianne Moore specifically is each hilarious and frighteningly psychotic as Poppy, the eccentric Jeff Bezos of unlawful substances and their distribution—and there’s one shocking, marvelously prolonged cameo that can have audiences rolling on the ground. Colin Firth and Egerton proceed to have implausible onscreen chemistry, and the scenes the place their characters of Harry and Eggsy reunite and crew as much as kick some unhealthy man butt are definitely worth the worth of admission by themselves.