DVDFAB FORUM KINGSMAN THE GOLDEN CIRCLE MOVIE
I saw the movie in IMAX on Saturday afternoon with less than a dozen people there, despite the great reception to the first film. That being said, I am a bit puzzled by the attendance for this film. It all comes together well and is extremely fun to watch. The introduction of the Statesmen and that whole storyline was a credible and organic extension of this world, the action is sensational, and the cast is clearly having a blast. Just an observation.ĭespite these above-listed issues, I really did enjoy the film overall and would recommend it wholeheartedly if you liked the first one. I get that the idea was she has so many minions so she doesn't have to do it herself, but I thought for the climax for sure she would actually get in on the fights, and she didn't. It would have been cool to actually see her get her hands dirty and get involved in some of the action. But, that being said, she was behind her desk barking orders for basically the whole film. What happened to them?ĥ) Julianne Moore clearly enjoyed herself hamming it up as the new villain, Poppy, and she is great in the role - just really, really funny. Does marrying the princess make him the prince, and if so, can he still be an undercover spy if he is thrust into the position of being a world leader/public figure/possible target for political assassination? Presumably he would have to be the lead of any probable third installment, so if he thinks he's out, he'll end up having to get pulled back in.Ĥ) Where were Egsy's mom and baby half-sister in this film? The last we saw of them was in the mid-credits scene of the first one when he invited them to live with him and promptly dealt with her abusive husband. He made an ass of himself at the dinner when he was watching Kingsman blow up and her parents didn't know he wasn't addressing them ("Fucking put it down right now," etc.), but there was no scene where he attempted to make it right with them, either, and yet they're okay with him marrying their daughter without explanation. They're in the middle of this fight, and he questions whether or not he can still be an agent if he marries her and becomes a public figure, and then he saves the world and all is fine and he marries her? I get that he loves her and wants to be with her, and that's fine, but since the movie raised those issues, it seemed awkward not to fully address them in the end prior to the wedding. I know Juliane Moore and Hallie Barry were in it, but they didn't really get in on the action much.ģ) As much as I felt that the film could/should have been cut down to a shorter length, I actually feel like the ending shortchanged Eggsy's relationship with the princess. I liked that her presence in the first one made it less of a completely boy's club, and that element was missing here with her absence. But at the same time, are we supposed to feel something at the end when Merlin/Mark Strong dies? How do we know they're not going to find some equally absurd way to resurrect him in the third film? Since this film is doing well for Fox and has already had a $100m global opening, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they officially greenlight the third one, which Matthew Vaughn has already said they were thinking about during the writing of this one.Ģ) On a related note, I get that the death of Roxy was intended to up the stakes and provide an emotional gut punch, which it did, but I feel like she was wasted in too small of a role and it would have been nicer to keep her alive and make her a major presence in the film. It seemed consistent with the world that they built.
Whatever else you might think of the movie, and no matter the technical restrictions of the 2K DI, there's something utterly demo about these aspects of the presentation in ways not wholly unlike Transformers: The Last Knight.1) I thought I was going to mind Colin Firth's return, because it does kind of take away from the emotional significance of his death in the first one, but the whole plot is so ridiculous, and I mean that in a good way, that I didn't have much of a problem with how they manage to BS their way out of his murder. Shadow detail is impressive too, with the darker recesses explored with better effect, as HDR brings a better gradation in blacks and peak whites, whilst the colour scheme benefits greatly from WCG, allowing the image to pop with kaleidoscopic candy colours (Julianne Moore's fortress of doom is rich with candy reds for all the classic Americana) in ways which simply leave the Blu-ray in the dust. Precision is key, setting this release apart from its Blu-ray counterpart even if the tech specs would have us believe otherwise. Whatever you might think about the movie there's something utterly demo about aspects of the presentationĭetail is fine-tuned here, receiving a nominal but still appreciable uptick in tangible detail, clarity and definition, no doubt often a side-effect of keen WCG and HDR implementation.
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