Like the first film, Vaughn and his co-writer Jane Goldman have no compunction about killing off both good guys and bad (though they feebly walk back Colin Firth’s death from the first film to allow him to play a key role in the sequel, especially in the last half of the movie), but those looking for similar beats to the original movie won’t be disappointed: there’s a fierce barroom fight, this time in a country-western bar rather than a London pub, and a number of exhilarating stunts involving a runaway ski lift and fierce tactical assaults in several locations but especially the climactic one in Poppy’s Cambodian compound styled on a 1950s small town motif that, true to the nature of the Kingsman films, is quirky and completely unique. Reestablishing the comic book look and feel immediately in his first scene in the picture, a wild fight in a taxicab and a madcap chase around London which defy every possible law of physics, writer-director Matthew Vaughn wastes no time in grabbing viewers back into the world of the Kingsman. While the President has no intention of capitulating to Poppy (in his mind, ridding the world of millions of drug users means he’s won the war on drugs), he pretends to be considering her offer while our heroes begin traveling the world trying to find the antidote which Poppy has cleverly hidden in key spots around the globe. Eggsy and Merlin, with no one to turn to in England, travel to Kentucky to find their American counterparts at the Statesman, a bourbon distillery headed by the wily boss man Champagne (Jeff Bridges) with agents Tequila (Channing Tatum) and Whiskey ((Pedro Pascal) as senior field agents and the bookish Ginger Ale (Halle Berry) as Merlin’s American alter ego. Poppy has infected her worldwide drug supply with a virus which will kill hundreds of millions of users around the globe unless the President of the United States (Bruce Greenwood) agrees to legalize all drugs whereupon she will furnish the antidote.
Secret agent Eggsy (Taron Egerton) is nicely adjusting to his continuing role in the Kingsman secret agent agency while also making headway in his engagement to Princess Tilde (Hanna Alström) of Sweden, but he’s shocked when international drug magnate Poppy (Julianne Moore) launches a surprise attack on all of the ten Kingman agents and offices at one time effectively wiping out the agency apart from Eggsy and tech guru Merlin (Mark Strong).
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