Kingsmen 2 (Spoilers Alert)
October 11, 2017Kinsmen is one of my all time favourite movies. I think it has the correct amount of gore and black humour that keeps you gripping on the edge of your seats.
When I heard that "Kinsmen 2" was coming out, I was ecstatic! I thought I could perhaps use one of their sets for this project, but I left the cinema disappointed.
Personally, I thought that they could have worked more on one central fight scene or one big explosive final showdown like the first one. Instead, the actions were spread thin across the whole film. I also felt like they lost their focus somewhere along the way, and was not sure who their target audience were. I give them 'A' for efforts, but they were just too many different social groups that they were trying to pull in.
x The interracial friendship between the two friends of different colour.
x The Oldies through (the very random and unsuspecting cameo of) Elton John and by using old
songs like "Take Me Home, Country Road" by John Denver.
-- Got to admit, I think I fall into this "Oldies" category too. Old but Gold --
x And of course, The Ladies with Magic Mike Star, Channing Tatum.
x Oh and let us not oversee the last shoutout to The Vegans at the end too, in Poppy's password.
That being said, looking at it from just purely an artist view, Poppy's Diner was quite interesting. I actually considered recreating the set for this project. However, because the second movie did not live up to my expectation of the first movie, this is my way of rebelling. Take that Kingsmen!
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| Poppy's Diner |
Do not get me wrong, it is still a great stand alone movie, but when you raise the bar so high with the first movie, I think you can do better than this. Besides, if I gave it a high rating now, then where are the room for improvements. I'm eagerly waiting for the 3 instalment to come out, please do not let me down Mr Director!



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