PLOT

A year after defeating Richmond Valentine, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin has officially joined Kingsman, having taken his late mentor Harry Hart's title of Galahad as well as Harry's old house, and is dating Tilde, Crown Princess of Sweden, whom he saved from Valentine. On his way home from the tailor shop, he is ambushed by Charlie Hesketh, a rejected Kingsman applicant who lost his right arm and vocal cords during the Valentine incident. Eggsy evades Charlie and his henchmen in a car chase across London, but Charlie's cybernetic arm, severed in the skirmish, hacks into the Kingsman servers through the computer in Eggsy's car. With the information thereby gained, Poppy Adams, the leader of the world's largest drug cartel, the Golden Circle, launches missiles that destroy Kingsman headquarters and kill all the agents in Britain, including Eggsy's best friend Roxy and his other friend Brandon, who was at Eggsy's house to look after his dog while Eggsy was away in Sweden with Tilde.

Eggsy and his only surviving colleague, Merlin, follow an emergency Doomsday Protocol, which leads them to Statesman, the American counterpart of Kingsman, which uses a Kentucky-based bourbon whiskey business as a front. There they discover that Harry survived his shooting by Valentine thanks to Statesman technology, but has amnesia that can be cured only by reliving a traumatic event. Statesman head Champagne offers the organization's support to bring down the Golden Circle. Statesman Agent Tequila develops a blue rash and shows signs of mania, ultimately being replaced by another agent, Whiskey, as Eggsy's partner. Eggsy plants a tracking device in Charlie's ex-girlfriend Clara Von Gluckfberg during a sexual encounter at Glastonbury Festival, but is estranged from Tilde after telling her beforehand what he has to do.

Merlin attempts to cure Harry's amnesia by flooding his bedroom—mirroring an element of Kingsman agent training—but the exercise fails. Eggsy eventually succeeds by threatening to shoot a Cairn Terrier puppy that resembles Harry's late dog, Mr Pickle, causing Harry to remember the Kingsman selection exercise where one must shoot one's dog, wherein the gun contains a blank. During their next mission, Poppy broadcasts a message announcing she has added a toxin to all her drugs, which causes users to develop symptoms like Tequila's before succumbing to paralysis and, subsequently, death. She offers the antidote to the world if the President of the United States will end the war on drugs and grant her cartel immunity from prosecution. The President publicly negotiates, but secretly intends to let the infected die, as he is willing to eliminate all drug users and thus render Poppy's business useless. He quarantines many victims, including his chief of staff, in a stadium and leaves them there to die.

Harry, Eggsy, and Whiskey track Clara to a Golden Circle facility in Italy. Eggsy manages to steal a sample of the antidote, but Whiskey destroys it during an attack by the Golden Circle's henchmen, leading Harry to suspect him of being a traitor and breaking the sample on purpose. Harry shoots Whiskey in the head, but Eggsy, believing Harry to be delusional due to an incomplete recovery, saves him with the same technology that Statesman used to save Harry. Charlie kills Clara by destroying the facility to prevent any more samples from being taken and leave no traces behind. Tilde calls Eggsy in a manic state, showing she has symptoms as a result of smoking cannabis in a fit of depression. Eggsy, Harry and Merlin discover the location of Poppy's hideout in Cambodia, "Poppy Land," and fly there.

While reconnoitring Poppy Land, Eggsy steps on a land mine, but Merlin sacrifices himself to save him and Harry while taking out a squad of Poppy's guards and singing his favourite John Denver song at the same time. A vengeful Eggsy and Harry storm through the lair as they kill all the guards they meet; Eggsy fights and kills Charlie as revenge for his fallen comrades, while Harry destroys Poppy's robotic attack dogs (called "Bennie" and "Jet") with the help of Elton John, whom Poppy had kidnapped during Valentine's attack and forced to sing for her. They secure the laptop controlling the drones that can deliver the antidote worldwide and inject Poppy with a concentrated dose of her toxin and heroin to dull her senses and let her guard down. A delirious Poppy gives them the laptop password for the antidote but dies from an accidental overdose. Whiskey interrupts them before they can deploy the drones, revealing that his pregnant wife was killed in a robbery committed by two methamphetamine users years ago, which caused him to develop a personal vendetta against all drug users and wants them to die. A furious fight breaks out, ending with Harry and Eggsy dropping Whiskey into Poppy's meat grinder. They then activate the drones, delivering the antidote worldwide.

In the aftermath, the President is impeached and arrested for conspiring to let the victims die, and Statesman purchases a distillery in Scotland to help rebuild Kingsman. Statesman tech support specialist Ginger Ale is appointed the new Agent Whiskey, Eggsy marries Tilde, and a cured Tequila joins Kingsman, which acquires a new tailor shop in London.

CAST

Colin Firth as Harry Hart / Galahad Sr.

Julianne Moore as Poppy Adams

Taron Egerton as Gary "Eggsy" Unwin / Galahad Jr.

Mark Strong as Hamish Mycroft / Merlin

Halle Berry as Ginger Ale

Pedro Pascal as Jack Daniels / Agent Whiskey

Elton John as himself

Channing Tatum as Agent Tequila

Jeff Bridges as Champagne "Champ"

Edward Holcroft as Charles "Charlie" Hesketh

Hanna Alström as Tilde, Crown Princess of Sweden

Bruce Greenwood as the President of the United States

Emily Watson as Chief of Staff Fox

Sophie Cookson as Roxanne "Roxy" Morton / Lancelot

Michael Gambon as Arthur

Flashback footage from The Secret Service includes Samuel L. Jackson and Sofia Boutella as Richmond Valentine and Gazelle, respectively. Tobias Bakare and Theo Barklem-Biggs return as Eggsy's friends Jamal and Ryan, with Thomas Turgoose and Calvin Demba introduced as two of Eggsy's other friends, Liam and Brandon. Furthermore, Samantha Womack makes a brief return appearance as Michelle Unwin, Eggsy's mother. Additionally, Poppy Delevingne portrays Clara Von Gluckfberg, Charlie's ex-girlfriend whom Eggsy meets; Keith Allen and Tom Benedict Knight feature as Charles and Angel, two of Poppy's henchmen; Björn Granath and Lena Endre feature as the King and Queen of Sweden, respectively; James Caroll Jordan appears as Guy Clark, one of Poppy's professors at Harvard University; and Mark Arnold portrays General McCoy, an advisor to the president of the United States. Shannon Bream and Bill Hemmer of Fox News appear as themselves.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service, which is based on the comic book series Kingsman, created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar