A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Just lame. Way to ridiculous to even be remotely realistic. People getting shot in the head and able to fully recover??? Seriously???? This movie is just ridiculous. It gets the extra star because Elton john is in it and as far as I can tell he's just being himself... i.e rude and obnoxious.

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.

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 knew this movie 'd not work. Sofia Boutella had been the main reason why the previous installment had been successful As a matter of fact this movie made her become famous Perhaps the choice of the director of making her character "die" in the previous movie (spoilers) , was unwise