My biggest apprehension after seeing this film is that Salman Khan might poach the OTT bits for his next action film.
The trouble is, those bits constitute almost the entire movie.
It wasn't for nothing that the first Kingsman film was a sleeper hit - it was original, unconventional and fun and offered an interesting new alternative to, say, James Bond films.
Matthew Vaughn, a very competent director even on his worst day, decided differently: he decided to make this a Johnny English-type spy story sequel - minus the signature humour of the inimitable Rowan Atkinson.
The story line, although unoriginal, was promising and the cast of characters could have worked wonders if the caricaturisation and the crass bits had been dispensed with.
Crowd-pullers Channing Tatum and Halle Berry had very little to do in their "guest appearances" (Bollywood lingo)- but Elton John, playing himself in a unique avatar, was irrepressible.
To sum up, this was my most disappointing sequel in a decade or more.
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