Franchises can look very easy, until you try to actually kick one off. The traps are everywhere. In the case of "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" there turns out to be a problem where the arc that the first one described for the lead character, Eggsy, has been pretty much completed, leaving him curiously superflous in the sequel (or at least, very much "generic hero") . There is an attempt to give the spy hero a grounded romantic arc (rather than flinging his way through multiple love interests, he sticks with the one he had at the end of the last movie) but, again, this kinda means that most of the arc has already been covered.
There are a couple of supplementary pleasures (some nice action, a couple of ridiculous larger than life guest stars, a somewhat pointedly political villainous plot) but none of them entirely compensate for the film feeling somewhat unnecessary (and of course all films are ultimately unnecessary, but this one feels more unnecessary than most).
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