Director: Oliver Parker
Writers: Hamish McColl, William Davies
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Daniel Kaluuya, Dominic West
I would love to say for you to calm down because this movie
is ‘only a bit of poo’ as it would be a cool reference to the first movie.
Unfortunately, this movie is actually a rather large amount of poo.
That being said, it is not a 100% pure poo. There are some
utterly hilarious moments like the vole in MI7 and the Rolls Royce Phantom
being truly the Rolls Royce of automobiles. Generally, while not being at his
best, Rowan Atkinson is till the highlight of the movie. His lines are funny
and he’s got a pretty flippin’ excellent physical performance shown in the
parkour sequence.
The main problems arise in the fact that English is far too competent. The first movie was an exercise in dramatic irony. You knew he had parachuted on to the wrong building but he didn’t making what he did in there all the more funny. Even though the parkour scene is really funny, It just amazes me that this character is able to execute success in any degree. In the first movie, he starts as the highest ranked agent in MI7 (by default) but constantly fails getting him kicked off the case. He just does everything wrong and the only thing he does do right is falling onto the throne. In Reborn he seems to never technically do anything wrong. He’s trying to hide from someone in an apartment, he does it successfully. He tries to fight someone, he does it successfully. He even tries to outrun the police using a wheelchair… successfully. More than this, apart from a few jokes, this supposed comedy movie really isn’t that funny at all. The third act is almost all cringe worthily awful as well. In theory this movie isn’t too excruciating but there are some scenes (particularly the first one) that are boring and unfunny, Speaking of excruciating scenes, some are just left half baked. Theirs is a scene
The main problems arise in the fact that English is far too competent. The first movie was an exercise in dramatic irony. You knew he had parachuted on to the wrong building but he didn’t making what he did in there all the more funny. Even though the parkour scene is really funny, It just amazes me that this character is able to execute success in any degree. In the first movie, he starts as the highest ranked agent in MI7 (by default) but constantly fails getting him kicked off the case. He just does everything wrong and the only thing he does do right is falling onto the throne. In Reborn he seems to never technically do anything wrong. He’s trying to hide from someone in an apartment, he does it successfully. He tries to fight someone, he does it successfully. He even tries to outrun the police using a wheelchair… successfully. More than this, apart from a few jokes, this supposed comedy movie really isn’t that funny at all. The third act is almost all cringe worthily awful as well. In theory this movie isn’t too excruciating but there are some scenes (particularly the first one) that are boring and unfunny, Speaking of excruciating scenes, some are just left half baked. Theirs is a scene
of mistaken identity which thankfully shows English’s incompetence but just as it’s getting good, we are sent away to another exotic location by Deus Ex ‘Not Bough’.
This movie throws all sort of subtlety and irony out of the window and opts for half finished, unfunny scenes. There are a couple good lines and Rowan Atkinson moment but not nearly enough to redeem this sizeable piece of poo.
Recommendation Status: Please don’t watch it.
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