Johnny English Strikes Again

Johnny English Strikes Again is a 2018 spy action comedy film directed by David Kerr and written by William Davies. It is the third in the Johnny English film series. The film stars Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English, alongside Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko, Jake Lacy and Emma Thompson. The film follows the titular MI7 agent who is called into action when every undercover operative is exposed in a cyber attack.

The film was released in Australia on 20 September 2018 and in the United Kingdom on 5 October, by Universal Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and grossed $159 million against a $25 million budget.

Seven years after the second film, a cyber attack exposes MI7’s field agents, forcing the agency to reinstate inactive agents, including Johnny English. Now a geography teacher, he secretly trains his students in espionage. Accidentally incapacitating the other retired agents, English is the sole agent left to accept the mission. He insists on his old sidekick and MI7 clerk, Jeremy Bough. Collecting their equipment, including explosive jelly babies and a tracker disguised as a Sherbet Fountain, English and Bough leave behind their mobile and drive an old Aston Martin to France to investigate.

They arrive at the Hotel Magnifique in Antibes, where the cyber attack originated. Undercover as waiters, they steal a mobile with a photo of the next target, the Dot Calm yacht, and English accidentally sets fire to the restaurant. Sneaking onto the yacht, he and Bough are caught by Russian operative Ophelia Bhuletova, but escape after seeing many computer servers.

Pursuing Bhuletova's electric BMW through the countryside, English and Bough run out of fuel. She finds them, arranging to meet at the Hotel de Paris in Cagnes-sur-Mer. While English meets her at the hotel bar, Bough discovers she is a spy, but English rejects his suspicions. Attempting to kill him in his room upon nightfall, Bhuletova fails after a sleepless English accidentally consumes energy pills instead of sleeping pills and forcefully vacates the room to attend a party, accidentally knocking her out in the process. She pursues him, but her various attempts to assasinate the oblivious English are inadvertently parried, ending with her being accidentally knocked out once more.

Further cyber attacks force the Prime Minister to solidify an agreement with Silicon Valley billionaire Jason Volta, to be revealed during a forthcoming G12 meeting.

Learning Volta owns the Dot Calm, and suspecting he is behind the cyber attack, English and Bough return home. Seeking proof, they infiltrate Volta's mansion. In preparation, English is given a virtual reality exploration of the building. However, he unintentionally leaves the simulation room, assaulting various people while in the virtual environment. Arriving at the mansion, English discovers Bhuletova is also a spy. He records evidence of Volta's plans with her iPhone, but accidentally presses the wrong button, playing music from the phone and exposing himself. English escapes, hijacking a driving instructor's car, returning to MI7 after being chased by Volta.

However, English mixes up iPhones with a driving student, thus failing to convince MI7 and the Prime Minister of Volta's schemes. Hearing of both the restaurant and virtual reality incidents, she fires English and Bough and proceeds with the G12 meeting in Scotland. Bough convinces English to stop Volta anyway, enlisting his wife Lydia, a Navy captain of submarine HMS Vengeance, to arrive at Garroch Castle via Loch Nevis.