10 Worst Defences Directors Had For Bad Movie Moments

Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a painfully underwhelming, overstuffed sequel, where it feels like every single idea in writer-director Matthew Vaughn's head was shot and included in the final movie without any sort of critical oversight.

Case in point, the film's most infamous scene sees Eggsy (Taron Egerton) plant a tracking device on a woman, Clara Von Gluckfberg (Poppy Delevingne), during a hookup at the Glastonbury Festival.

The scene culminates in Eggsy implanting the tiny tracker inside Clara by fingering her, and even if you can ignore the inherent grossness of the idea - that is, the violation of Eggsy's act - Vaughn goes one further by showing an up-close CGI glimpse of the tracker nestled inside Clara's cervical canal.

The sequence proved wildly controversial with critics and viewers alike, enough that Vaughn felt compelled to defend it to The Independent:

"I was laughing and thought no one has done a shot like this before. We figured it out and thought 'Let’s do it.' [...] Right now the world has become so sterilised. For just one second, I want people to go 'Oh my God' or laugh, to find it funny or not laugh and move on."

To paraphrase the great Dr. Ian Malcolm, "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could that you didn't stop to think if you should." There's probably a reason this shot hasn't been done before, and beyond that, low-key dismissing the scene's decriers as over-sensitive just isn't a good look.