2003 · adventure · action · comedy
Johnny English
Directed by Peter Howitt1h 27m2003
A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When a billionaire entrepreneur sponsors the exhibition of the Crown Jewels—and the valuable gems disappear on the opening night and on English's watch—the newly-designated agent must jump into action to find the thief and recover the missing gems.
Our read: Johnny English (2003) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive adventure · action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured adventure / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
- funny
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