In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. In the years since MI-7's top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia - possibly at Tibet or China.
But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier's life, they must hunt down the people responsible. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action. With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7.
With mere days until a heads of state conference, Johnny English must use every trick in his playbook. For him, disaster may be an option, but failure never is.
Discussions where held to completely stop the Vortex team for assassinating their next target - the leader of China during a private conference discussion with the British Prime Minister.
As usual, comedic Johnny English made common silly mistakes while his sidekick Agent Tucker (Daniel Kaluuya) tried to discover the truth about a double-agent within MI-7 itself, which was Simon Ambrose (Dominic West). Unfazed by Tucker's attempt and accusation of Ambrose, English eventually committed the biggest mistake by trusting Ambrose and handing over the Vortex key to him.
Together with Kate Sumner (Rosamund Pike), both of them managed to discover the real truth and tried to stop Ambrose from being successful with his evil plans.
As the plot unravel, Vortex is actually a liquid drug which is used for mind controlling of its victim, which can only be controlled by Ambrose's voice of commands. MI-7 Agent Pamela Thornton (Gillian Anderson) was supposed to be the victim to assassinate the China leader but English drank the spiked drink.
Eventually English was under Ambrose's control and Ambrose commanded him to kill. But with his internal will and strength (and also recalling what his Chinese master has preached), he managed to fight the poison and prevent himself from killing anyone. He died for a while, a predicted outcome after drinking the drug. But with a kiss by Kate Sumner, he eventually became alive and gain consciousness.
In the end, Ambrose was killed by English and it's more or less the end.
Overall, Johnny English Reborn is just another action comedy show. Rowan Atkinson's talent in acting dumb is probably the main attraction of the movie, as he's already well-known as another character - Mr. Bean. The storyline is predictable, and despite being a spy movie - it's just an average movie.
There was no suspense and the bad guys are so easily to be identified. It's just a matter of time before silly Johnny English realizes it. On and off, there were funny scenes - laughable, mainly on silly actions.
If there's any consolation to the movie, it would be the appearance of beautiful Kate Sumner. She's professionally hot and elegant in a way. However, didn't expect her to fall in love with a bloke like English though.
Noobie Rating: 6/10 (Watch for the laughter)
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