Gonna bomb

And it's got the monumental suckage of the Kingsmen sequel to overcome. Who would possibly want to see more of this franchise after that disaster?

Only 11 wide openings in the next 4 weekends. If you want action/scifi, you'll watch both of them. I'm bored with Matrices myself.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/calendar/?ref_=bo_hm_rs

This is probably an accurate prediction. I saw it this afternoon, and I don't think its going to be much of an audience pleaser.

If you're looking for lots of action and the sarcastic humor of the first Kingman movie, its not here. This one takes awhile to get going, and action set pieces are mostly far into the movie. I didn't so much mind the pace, as I like the historical setting, even with the liberties they took.

I liked the naughty vibe in the first movie. Didn't bother with the second as it looked like a mess. But like many modern movies, this one is completely sexless. Gemma Arterton, ever since she got a bug up her ass about being pretty and having been a "Bond Girl", is another one of her recent completely buttoned up asexual roles. Her part might as well have been a man.

The only bit of feminine sexual energy at all is with some grainy footage of some woman supposedly seducing Woodrow Wilson, but this amounts to just seeing her dance around his desk a bit and then go behind it before the footage stops. I would have liked to see that actual event, not just the lame grainy footage of it that is being used to blackmail Wilson.

Then there is Mata Hari, who SHOULD be a display of sensuality, but they do nothing with her as well. She at least wears a jacket revealing a tiny bit of cleavage, but that's it.

There's the insinuation that Rasputin likes young boys. I don't know if that is based anything, but that's about as much innuendo as you get in this movie.

Not a bit of romance or sexuality to this.

yes

Meanwhile, barring an overseas miracle, there will be no haggling over Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man. The much-delayed (mostly due to Covid) prequel to The Secret Service ($428 million in 2015) and The Golden Circle ($400 million in 2017) outright tanked yesterday with just $2.3 million. We’re looking at a $6 million Fri-Sun/$10 million Wed-Sun debut for yet another big 20th Century release seemingly hung out to dry by Disney during a crowded holiday season. To be fair, I’ve long questioned the commercial wisdom of a Kingsman prequel. The appeal of those first two films was specific to the films themselves, Taron Egerton and Colin Firth facing off against cartoonish villains in ultra-violent/ultra-crude (and star-packed) odes to the Roger Moore 007 films, as opposed to any interest in the Kingsman in the abstract.

Having seen the Ralph Fiennes-led film, it’s A) a lot better than The Golden Circle and B) clear that Matthew Vaughn merely wanted to make a big budget World War I-era action spy drama and used the existing IP as a commercial alibi. Kudos to him on that score, but there’s a risk in diluting the core present-tense franchise in the bargain. That this one landed with such a thud further shows that Disney should have held Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story for Christmas weekend, opened The King’s Man in early December and maybe platformed Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley until early January. Or perhaps, to quote Matrix Reloaded, what happened happened and couldn’t have happened any other way. With Spider-Man 3, Sing 2 and Matrix 4 sucking up the oxygen, there’s not much left for anything else.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2021/12/23/wednesday-box-office-sing-2-tops-matrix-4-while-kings-man-bombs

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