Johnny English
Plot
Eight years after the events of the first film, Formerly Sir
Johnny English (
Rowan Atkinson) is learning martial arts in
Tibet as penance for a botched mission in
Mozambique which resulted in him being stripped of his
Knighthood. However, he is contacted by MI7, who request that he returns to service.
Johnny returns to MI7's
London headquarters (now
Toshiba British Intelligence) and assigned by new boss "Pegasus" (
Gillian Anderson) to stop a plot to assassinate the Chinese Premier during scheduled talks with the Prime Minister. Johnny also meets with fellow agent Simon Ambrose (
Dominic West) and MI7's resident inventor, Patch Quartermain (
Tim McInnerny). He is also assigned a junior agent, Colin Tucker (
Daniel Kaluuya).
In
Hong Kong, English discovers an address that leads him to ex-
CIA agent Titus Fisher (
Richard Schiff). Fisher reveals that he is a member of a group of assassins called 'Vortex', who sabotaged English's mission in Mozambique. Vortex holds a secret weapon, which requires three metal keys to unlock, and Fisher reveals one. Fisher is killed by an assassin (
Pik-Sen Lim) disguised as a cleaner and the keys falls into the hands of a Vortex member. A foot chase along the buildings of Hong Kong results in English retrieving the Key from the agent. On a flight back to London, Johnny gives a suitcase containing the key to a flight attendant, who is revealed to be a Vortex agent. English is humiliated in front of the Foreign Secretary and Pegasus by the loss of the key, and assaults Pegasus's mother, mistaking her for the killer cleaner. He escapes the situation on a tandem bicycle while wearing a suit.
Kate Sumner (
Rosamund Pike), MI7's behavioural psychologist, prompts English to recall the events of his mission in
Mozambique, and the identity of the second Vortex operative, Karlenko (
Mark Ivanir), a Russian spy. Johnny meets him at an exclusive golf course outside of London. As they are playing golf, the same assassin from Hong Kong reappears and uses a sniper rifle against Karlenko. Johnny takes Karlenko and escapes the golf course in a helicopter. They fly to the nearest hospital using the roads as a way of direction. As they arrive, Karlenko reveals that Vortex's last agent is a member of MI7, and dies.
In a meeting at MI7, it is revealed that talks between Britain and China will continue in a heavily guarded fortress called 'Le Bastion' in the
Swiss Alps. Over dinner, English informs Ambrose that he knows of a mole in MI7. Ambrose prepares to kill English, until it becomes clear that the traitor's identity is unknown. Tucker confronts Ambrose in the bathroom, knowing he is the mole, but English scolds Tucker and orders him to leave. Ambrose convinces English that Quartermain is the traitor. English entrusts the key to Ambrose, who then tells Pegasus that English is the traitor.
English confronts Quartermain, and realises that he has been framed. He is then shot at by MI7 snipers and agents posing as worshippers in a church, using suppressors on their guns to fool the priest. He is shot once in the left leg and fools Quartermain before escaping in a modified
wheelchair after holding Quartermain at gunpoint. English goes to Kate's house, and convinces her that he is not the traitor. Kate, scrutinising footage of the Mozambique mission, realises that the assassin behaved abnormally. They learn that Vortex owns a drug called
timoxelyn barbebutenol that allows them to control a person for a brief time before they die of heart failure. Ambrose, the only surviving member of Vortex, plans to use the drug to kill the Premier in exchange for 500 million
USD.
English visits Tucker and convinces him to help infiltrate 'Le Bastion'. After passing through security at the fortress, English warns Pegasus of the threat, and unknowingly drinks the spiked drink, rendering him vulnerable to Ambrose's commands. Ambrose orders English to kill the Premier using a pistol disguised as a tube of
lipstick. English tries to resist the effects of the drug, and engages in a fight with himself while Tucker attempts to interrupt communication between Ambrose and English. Tucker disrupts the frequency, replacing it with radio station, resulting in English beginning to dance. Ambrose reasserts his command, exposing himself in the process. English resists, shooting at Ambrose, who escapes.
The effects of the drug wear off and English seemingly dies of heart-failure, before being revived by Kate, who kisses him on the lips, making his heart rate boost. English pursues Ambrose, parachuting from the building and hijacking a
snowmobile. English reaches Ambrose, who is in a
gondola lift. The two fight, with English falling out of the car. Ambrose tries to shoot English, who shoots a rocket disguised as an umbrella at the cable-car, killing Ambrose. English then sits back and says happily - "Tucker, you clever boy!"
Because to his actions, English is due to have his knighthood reinstated by The Queen but as the ceremony takes place, The Queen reveals herself to be the killer cleaner and attempts to decapitate him. English fends off the cleaner and gives chase to her but instead tackles The Queen and mercilessly beats her repeatedly in front of everyone. The killer cleaner is then brought in to everyone's view and English, who also sees the killer caught, gives a horrified look as he realizes who he has in a headlock.
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