The utter zaniness of the first film is amped up in “The Golden Circle” with an even more cartoonishly evil villain with an even more outlandishly crazy scheme. For the sequel to 2015’s “ Kingsman: The Secret Service”, the titular British spy organization is wiped out by the psychotic drug lord Poppy Adams, forcing the surviving agents of Kingsman, Eggsy and Merlin, to team up with the American covert spy group, Statesman, to put a stop to her nefarious plot. Spy movies rarely embrace the kind of “Looney Tunes” meets “Itchy and Scratchy” tone of the “Kingsman” series, and by the halfway point of “The Golden Circle”, you’ll wish they did so more often. Phillip Ng and Xia Yu absolutely nail it as Bruce and Wong, and make no mistake, the film’s recreation of Bruce and Wong’s duel hits it out of the park! Some may take exception to the brash and cocky attitude Bruce exhibits in the film, until you realize that its meant to be allegorical, with Bruce embodying the very know-it-all attitude he would later seek to reform in the martial arts world, whilst Wong Jack-man embodied the enlightenment that Bruce would gain from the fight. “Birth of the Dragon” heavily fictionalizes the circumstances surrounding the fight, but in doing so pays it the great tribute of illustrating the immortalizing effect that such monuments of history take on when they rise to the level of ‘legendary’.

And rest assured, impressing the audience “Commando 2” does!īruce Lee‘s legendary fight with Wong Jack-man is transformed into the most fun Bruceploitation movie ever made with “Birth of the Dragon” – and the second time the famed duel between these kung fu masters had been recreated on the big screen after 1993’s “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”. Jammwal to wow viewers throughout the film with his incredible physicality and square-jawed, towering charisma.

The opening action sequence, which looks like the offspring of “ The Raid” and “ District B13”, gives the audience their money’s worth right out of the gate, and sets up Mr. This time, our hero transitions from John Rambo to James Bond to take down an under-the-radar money laundering scheme that’s draining money from India and into the coffers of its most vicious criminal overlord. The ancient art of Kalaripayattu has the best big screen ambassador it could possibly ask for in the form of Vidyut Jammwal, (The New Age Action Hero of Bollywood) who raises the bar for Indian action once more in “Commando 2: The Black Money Trail”.

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