Johnny English Strikes Again (limited)
Rowan Atkinson returns as Johnny English, and this time his co-star is an actual former Bond girl!
The original Johnny English came out way back in 2003, and Johnny English Reborn in 2011, and while neither of them have been outstanding, they have marked themselves as the true king of super spy parodies. And for parodies, there is quite a lot of pedigree here. The car in Johnny English Reborn, for example, was literally one of a kind. Rowan Atkinson wanted to stray away from Aston Martin and he settled on the Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, which normally comes with a V12 engine, but Rowan Atkinson was privy to the fact that Rolls had made a handful of 9.0 liter V16 engines for that very car. He asked them to put one into the movie car, and they actually did it.
The pedigree doesn't stop there. At this stage in his career, Rowan Atkinson's comedic abilities are as much a triumph of English culture as the character of James Bond himself. And this time around he's got Olga Kurylenko (the Bond girl from Quantum of Solace) as his co-star, and he drives an Aston Martin once more (just a few generations behind the one Bond himself drove in The Living Daylights).
But on to the most important question for a comedy film: does it look funny? Yes. Yes, it really does.
Johnny English Strikes Again is rated PG for some action violence, rude humor, language and brief nudity.
Indivisible
I love that there's apparently a strong market for movies like this.
Indivisible is about an army chaplain who goes to war. So what's the central conflict in the movie? Hard to say. It seems to be every hardship that can possibly stem from that situation. The difficulty of being apart from his wife and kids, the difficulty of gaining the trust of those he serves, the difficulty of dealing with the realities of war, and so on.
Indivisible is rated PG-13 for some thematic material and war violence.
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