Johnny English got recently released in Finland and I thought it turned up to be pretty good! It might not be quite up to the standard of the two other previous films, but I think the Johnny’s analogical approach to the modern world was well delivered – and hopefully there’ll be another movie in the future.

The start of the film gave me a bad impression at first, but like anything – in the long run it got better and better. Johnny English’s stupidity and brilliance can still be seen, but maybe not in the elegant way it had been years before. I felt that the ideas in the film were fresh and welcome.

[!!SPOILER ALERT!!]

The plot goes as follows. One night. the MI7 government agency receives a cyber attack from an unknown entity which exposes the identities of all their current agents. They are subsequently forced to reinstate their older and inactive agents. One of the agents, English, currently a geography teacher secretly training his young and keen students in espionage, is summoned by M17. However, before the meeting he manages to incapacitate the other summoned retired agents by detonating a spy gadget that one of them had shown him. Thus, he is tasked to complete the mission by himself, but luckily he gets to be accompanied by his old sidekick, Bough (from the first film). Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is considering a meeting  with a Silicon Valley billionaire, Jason Volta, so he can solve the occurring cyber attacks in London and to form an agreement that she can bring to a meeting between G12 nations.

English and Bough travel to south of  France in their Aston Martin with their gadgets and begin their investigations. Both of them receive a clue that the cyber attack came from a yacht, the Dot Calm. Upon infiltrating the yacht, English marks it as a potential target with a concealed transmitter. Just when they’re about to leave the yacht, they meet a Russian woman, Ophelia, who “tries” to stop them. The following day, English and Bough decide to pursue Ophelia as she leaves the ship, Dot Calm, but just slightly after they fire tear gas missile at French cyclists their car runs out of gas, Ophelia pulls up to their side of the car and requests to meet them later on. In London, the prime minister finally gets to meet Volta himself who hacks the city’s traffic management system and resolves one of the cyber attacks. While English is having the meeting with Ophelia, Bough is busy searching her room and finds concrete evidence that she’s a Russian spy. Nonetheless English is unconvinced and instead is enchanted by her. Ophelia is revealed to be a Russian spy and is quickly ordered by her superior to eliminate English. Fortunately, she fails to execute English after he makes the silly mistake of consuming the wrong pill that causes him to be hyperactive. This is where the funniest scene begins, Johnny English exiting the room instantly slamming Ophelia and rushing to the dance floor while dancing to the upbeat of Darude Sandstorm. Ophelia joins to dance with him and simultaneously attempting several times to murder him, English accidentally knocks her out on the floor.

The next morning, as the side effects of the pill still linger, Bough informs English that the yacht belongs to Volta. English and Bough then rush back to MI7 and report it to Pegasus. However, Pegasus is unconvinced and asks for a concrete evidence. Thus, English and Bough decide to infiltrate Volta’s British mansion residence. 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 asked to complete a virtual reality simulation in which he explores the billionaire’s mansion. Afterwards, English proceeds on the infiltration mission, where he meets Ophelia within the mansion. After recording evidence about Volta’s true objectives with Ophelia’s phone, English is captured when she betrays him. English manages to escape but accidentally takes the wrong phone and fails to convince Pegasus and the Prime Minister regarding Volta’s schemes. The Prime Minister fires English and decides to proceed with the G12 meeting in Scotland.

Bough convinces English to move forward and stop Volta without MI7 support. They enlist the assistance of Bough’s wife Lydia, the captain of a Navy submarine. In Scotland, Volta reveals to Ophelia that he has known her true identity since the beginning. Fortunately, English manages to intervene before Volta is able to kill her, but he also fails to capture Volta as Ophelia escapes. Volta then joins the Prime Minister and the other G12 nations’ leaders for the meeting. English tries to stop Volta again but fails. The tech billionaire then reveals his true plan of extorting the G12 nations’ leaders for control over their countries’ data. After failing the second time, English decides to call Pegasus for help as he forgets about the warning that Bough’s wife gave him about using a phone near the submarine. English’s call inadvertently causes the submarine to launch a missile that destroys the Dot Calm, which was previously marked by English and effectively ruining Volta’s scheme. Volta tries to escape but English finally manages to incapacitate him. Afterwards, upon completing the mission, English returns to his teaching job. There, he introduces his students with the gadgets that he used during the mission, but the headmaster accidentally uses one of them.