Many times the sequels of some movies are so bad or inferior to the original that one wants to upload the note to the original, and it will not be the first or the last time that gives me that feeling. With the first I laughed a lot more than this one, because they bet on a humor that extracted the full potential of a Rowan Atkinson in a state of grace, not to say it was much simpler. With this they decided to bet on the comic action and some gags very forced, turning the spy of the first part into a fool, and not that innocent spy to which everything went wrong and concealed so well that I remember the original.Even though I have scenes capable of giving you a smile, I personally take the first one.But if the fun moments are much looser than those of the first part, which is to say, the worst of the sequel is its plot. In Johnny English 1, we had a baddie, John Malkovich, who wanted to steal the crown jewels and become King to carry out a malicious plan. A bullshit yes, but the plot must be simple if what you really want is to make a comedy of this type. In Johnny English 2, however, there are so many characters and stories that you do not even know what they are (even Gillian Anderson from "X-Files" does not reach that category, with a fake British accent). That if infiltrated here that if infiltrated there, that if the drug to make one do or stop doing do not know what the Chinese for God knows what, an old Asian appears and disappears and Mozambique went by.Do you remember the first one when he is mistaken of a building? Or when he teaches the archbishop's ass to the whole country? And when he mistakenly places a DVD of him dancing in the bathroom in front of half the world just after? (a memorable setback) Do you remember Natalie Imbruglia ?, and the music of Robbie Williams in the final credits ?.Yeah, maybe he had the bar too high, but he did not become bad at all. It happens to be one of those sequels that serve to claim the original, as the sequel to "Independence Day". At least you can see Rosamund Pike for a while.P.S.: For the reviewer "mogambo", yeah sure, this sequel was good for you because you were appealed to the young actresses born between 1989 and 1990, years before the Barcelona Olympics (this movie was premiered before the London Olympics). If so, go to date Spanish girls.

Johnny English goes up against international assassins hunting down the Chinese premier. Johnny English: Reborn is an amazing, hilarious and action packed sequel it fixed many things from the first for example the jokes hit the spot most of the time, the villain is way more interesting and the run time is also better with the film having more story and more and Rowan Atkinson is even better this time as the title character the movie also has a much better cast than the first famous and talented people such as Dominic West and Rosamund Pike and X-Files star Gillian Anderson. Watching this film in the theaters was amazing back in the day and i don't regret it at all both the director and the entire cast did such a fantastic job with this film than any reboot does this days i give Johnny English: Reborn a 10 out of 10.

Johnny English has been thrown out of MI7 following a disastrous operation in Mozambique and has retreated to Tibet where he is learning kung fu at a remote monastery. He is called back into the service though when a plot to assassinate the Chinese Premier is uncovered. He goes to Hong Kong, with junior agent Colin Tucker, where he learns of a secret organisation known as 'Vortex' one of its members informs him that Vortex is a group of three assassins and that they were responsible for the events on Mozambique… he also explains that each member has a key and that all three are needed for Vortex to carry out its missions. Before he can say anything else he is killed by an elderly Chinese cleaning lady. English manages to get the key but loses it again before he can give it to his boss. He tracks down a second member of Vortex who tells him that the third member is an MI7 agent. It is rather unfortunate that the one person English trusts is in fact the traitor and it isn't long before he is accused of being part of Vortex and hunted by the security services; the only people he can turn to for help are Tucker and Kate Sumner, MI7's behavioural psychologist. If he is to foil Vortex's plan he will have to venture to a secure location at the top of a Swiss mountain and confront the traitor on last time.The original 'Johnny English' film was fun if rather silly; this was more fun and a bit less silly. The story feels very much like a typical Bond film but is obviously played for laughs. The early Tibetan training section is funny and proves relevant later on. Before English goes on the mission we get a scene which nicely spoofs the visits Bond used to visit Q's lab; this was spot on and Tim McInnerny does a fine job as Patch Quartermain, the quartermaster who has blown off several of his limbs creating his devices. Once the mission is underway we get a series of really good set pieces; English giving chase to an opponent skilled in parkour in Hong Kong and by simply going round various obstacles rather than vaulting them; English fleeing through London in a supercharged wheelchair and the final confrontation in the alps that could almost have come from 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service. There is also a nice running gag featuring the Chinese assassin where English attacks the wrong woman. The cast is solid with Rowan Atkinson going a fine job as Johnny English, Gillian Anderson plays it impressively straight as English's boss and Rosamund Pike is good as Kate Sumner. Dominic West makes a good villain and Daniel Kaluuya does a decent job as Tucker. Overall I'd recommend this to anybody wanting a good laugh as well as a few thrills.

Do yourselves a favor and trust me when I say you must avoid this film.When I see a film as bad as this one I despair of the film industry as a whole. I wonder how on earth anyone would finance such an unfunny, banal, formulaic, unoriginal and almost completely predictable (apart from keeping the token black actor alive) film, but then I remember that the British government has been giving huge tax breaks to encourage the film industry to invest into 'British' films. if this cow pat of a film is a typical result, then the British taxpayer has been robbed blind. This money ought to be paying for higher risk productions (i.e not based solely on getting financial reward) to engender new talent especially in writing and direction.One day I hope that cinema will start reaching the heights that currently only seem to be being reached on TV - watch Game of Thrones, quite superb!