It has a weird generosity toward its audience. Yet it’s hard to hate this movie too much. And just like the first movie, the film’s politics are all over the place in a way that should be fun but ends up feeling distracting. The dramatic stakes are inert, the filmmaking is hyperactive, and the movie keeps introducing characters only to shuffle them offscreen a couple of minutes later. The Golden Circle is two hours and 21 minutes long, and at least half of that feels like clutter.

Every single character has a double or even a triple somewhere, and though some of that is built into the story (which is centered on an American version of the Kingsman independent spy agency), it often feels as if the movie kept casting recognizable actors, then felt obligated to come up with characters for all of them.

The film has something like five antagonists, which it keeps juggling, with four or five different storylines. That’s an exaggeration, but only slightly. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark

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