Johnny English (2003)
starring Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbruglia and John Malkovich

This is a rare example of a really good action comedy, that’s actually regularly funny, even to the scarcely amused.

Rowan Atkinson, best known as the star of Mr Bean, plays the accident-prone but oft-lucky lead agent from MI7, assisted by his subordinate played by Ben Miller, as well as Interpol agent played by Natalie Imbruglia, tasked with stopping the criminal mastermind played by John Malkovich from becoming King of England and turning the UK into one big prison island.

I rate this movie Above Average for an action hero movie, because it lacks a slick action hero and all that comes with one, but is rather funny and quite well made with a strong cast.

Sequels

If you enjoyed this movie and want more, you’re in luck since there were a couple of sequels released over the course of the next 15 years: Johnny English Reborn (2011) with Gillian Anderson (from The X-Files) and Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) with Olga Kurylenko (from Hitman, Oblivion, etc).