Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on January 2012

About what you’d expect from a tardy and needless sequel (Johnny English Resuscitated?) to the not-that-funny 2003 James Bond sendup, a concept that was done better anyway in the Austin Powers movies. But determined fans of the still lovable Rowan Atkinson doing things like dangerously misusing the latest spy weaponry, badly misjudging dire situations, taking multiple shots to the groin and beating elderly ladies senseless will be amused, though these are mostly children (for whom the film is a tad too violent). Sporadically funny and not entirely terrible, but it never really takes off.