Taglines: Intelligence is a deadly tool.
MI7 is being targeted by a massive cyber attack from an unknown entity, exposing the identities of all its current field agents. As a result, MI7 is forced to reinstate older inactive agents in order to track down the culprits behind the attack. Among the reinstated agents is Johnny English, who officially works as a geography teacher while secretly training his young students in espionage. After accidentally incapacitating the other agents, English insists on being given the services of his old sidekick, Bough, who is still a clerk in MI7.
English and Bough travel to the south of France to begin their investigation, where the cyber attack roughly originated from. They locate a yacht named Dot Calm in a marina nearby and try to board it during the night. There they are caught by an on board operative Ophelia, but manage to escape their cell, find an array of servers and leave the yacht.
The next day, they decide to stalk Ophelia. When they eventually spot her leaving the yacht, they follow her car on the serpentine roads of South France, until they run out of gas. Ophelia, well aware of their pursuit, comes back and she and English agree to a meeting. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is considering a meeting with a Silicon Valley billionaire, Jason Volta, to form an agreement.
While English is meeting with Ophelia at a bar, Bough discovers evidence that suggests she could be a spy. English, now infatuated with Ophelia, however refuses to consider Bough’s premise. Ophelia is shown to be in fact a Russian spy and receiving orders from her superiors to eliminate English. Fortunately, she fails to execute English, who manages to evade her attempts after accidentally consuming a pill that causes him to become hyperactive.
Meanwhile, after further series of cyber attacks, the Prime Minister and Volta solidify an agreement to be revealed during the G12 meeting. In preparation for the infiltration, English is tasked to complete a virtual reality simulation in which he explores the billionaire’s mansion. However, he fails to unlock the pad to keep himself in the room and unknowingly harms the civilians around the town in the process.
Johnny English Strikes Again is a 2018 action comedy film directed by David Kerr. A sequel to Johnny English Reborn (2011), it is the third instalment of the Johnny English series. Starring Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko, Jake Lacy and Emma Thompson, the film follows the titular secret MI7 agent who is called into action when all undercover operatives are exposed in a cyber attack.
The film was released in cinemas in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2018 and in the United States on 26 October 2018, by Universal Pictures. The film, unlike its predecessors, received generally negative reviews from critics but was a box office success, grossing over $158 million worldwide.
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
Directed by: David Kerr
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko, Emma Thompson, Adam James, Jasmine Brightmore, Rua Robertson, Adam Greaves-Neal, George Turner, Pippa Bennett-Warner
Screenplay by: William Davies
Production Design by: Simon Bowles
Cinematography by: Florian Hoffmeister
Film Editing by: Mark Everson
Costuma Design by: Annie Hardinge
Set Decoration by: Liz Griffiths
Art Direction by: Sophie Bridgman, Ben Collins, Gregory Fangeaux, Rhys Ifan, Vladimir Kostovic, Justin Warburton-Brown
Music by: Howard Goodall
MPAA Rating: PG for some action violence, rude humor, language and brief nudity.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: October 26, 2018
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