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Better than the last one but ...


But still not great. Though there are a few interesting things in the first half of the movie, that first half was boring and sometimes very bad. Once they get into the trenches, it elevates to a decent Vaughn movie. Things finally start happening. So it gets enjoyable but in the end I didn't care about the predictable reveal nor really any of the characters. But the good parts made it well worth it.

K1: 9.5/10
K2: 5.5/10
K3: 6.5/10 (once the two halves are averaged out)

I say watch it if you liked the previous ones.


SPOILER!

A highlight for me was when the Allied commander takes 5 guys with him at midnight out into the bomb-pocked, barb-wire wasteland between fronts to retrieve info from the corpse of the spy who didn't make the run across earlier that day. When they crawl up to his location, they discover a quiet group of Germans slinking up to the same position with apparently the same goal. When they see each other, they aim weapons but no one fires. They know that any fire at all out there would bring a rain of gunfire down on them from both sides. The German commander hand signals for a lowering of weapons and makes a gesture like an explosion. The British commander understands and motions his lads to drop their weapons. They all do so and then silently advance into melee with knives, bayonets, and hatchets. It is a beautiful scene and drips with badassery like Mathew Vaughn is so good at.

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