Johnny English Strikes Again 2018 by AverageMansReviews

Johnny English Strikes Again 2018 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/choking/medical/references to Russia and sexism

MI7 is under a cyber attack: briefly; they have to bring somebody that wasn't on their system Agent Johnny English/other name [Rowan Atkinson:] an veteran but retired MI7 agent which is now turned into an apparently geography teacher; I say apparently because he looks to be training the agents of tomorrow, we also have Agent Angus Bough/other name [Ben Miller;] he is an MI7 agent teaming up with Agent English again after so many years part [in a film franchise sense;] these two agents will solve the case.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 89 minutes film is not problematic; it is straightforward and just get on with it.

Comedy, action, art, character developments and performances; well let's talk about the positives first; the virtual reality yet reality sequence of events is highly engaging from beginning to end; basically Agent English goes into virtual reality; but does not activate the safeguard so whatever he does in  virtual reality has some level of consequences in reality for a little example using these long bread rolls as lethal weapons or this long dance sequence when Agent English has taken something or much later on he climbs up using this like this Iron Man type of equipment. The  virtual reality and dancing sequence showed all round good artistic visions.

But now we come to the negatives; for some strange reason and I regard this to be 100% stupidity. Now we know Agent English is old, but do we really have to make it obvious and I mean painfully obvious; it could range from him wanting to use out of date equipment such as a gun or a vehicle which is not environmentally friendly or having females able to be spies or/and captains and I don't have a nut allergy, but when he talks to this individual and cuts him off about the paperwork; I am not being woken or/and a snowflake here, but considering people have died from nut allergies; it is one of those brief seconds where you go and suck in air through your teeth; to go basically not cool. I mean we get it you are old you don't have to be tone deaf as well, I know we have Agent Bough justifying some of Agent English's things in what he says; but yet again it just compounds the painful elements of this sequel and the performances are what they are; meaning if this is what they wanted; well done you hit the jackpot.

This film receives: 4/10, this film is mixed; full disclosure originally I gave it is something a little bit higher, but on reflection this sequel as you can tell from this content it is comfortably worse than its predecessor as it deliberately and knowingly really goes after the fish out of water; Agent English is old thing. Well that is the end of this franchise or is it? Well I have seen little bits and pieces suggesting that they may be working on another instalment to be released at some point in the future and won't that be fun? Not! This film also has an award accredited to it 1 Winner British Film Designers Guild Awards 2018 BFDG Award Best Production Design International Studio Feature – Contemporary Simon Bowles (Production Designer) Ben Collins (Supervising Art Director) Liz Griffiths (Set Decorator)