Johnny English Reborn
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
- funny
Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the target of some high-powered killers, it falls on Johnny English to save the day. Armed with the latest high-tech weaponry and gadgets that would make even James Bond jealous, the once-disgraced agent uncovers evidence of a massive conspiracy involving some of the world's most powerful organisations, and vows to redeem his tarnished reputation by stopping the killers before they can strike.
Our read · Johnny English Reborn (2011) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive crime · action · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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