In 1987 I saw Rowan Atkinson on Broadway and though the one man show closed before I had a chance to go again, it remains one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
I have been less keen on his subsequent work, Mr. Bean was OK slapstick, "The Thin Blue Line" an excellent ensemble sit-com, and Johnny Englis: a hybrid Bond-Clouseau, amusing enough.
The second movie, "Reborn" is alright. English, after getting distracted and alowing the assasination of an African Prime Minister, is fired from M17 and moves to a monastry in Tibet when the movie opens five years later.An informant will only speak to English and so he is called in from the cold to thwart an assisanation attempt on the Chinese PM.
Gillian Anderson plays Pegassus, and Rosaline Pike plays the love interest and very well.
The problem with the movie is that it isn't especially funny and every gag is drawn our to painful lengths.Sill it earns its chuckles.
Musically, English and his sidekick sing David Soul's "Don't Give Up On Us" to a dying assassin (don't bother asking), Chinese pop is heard brefly in an rlrvator, and Rumer (a sort of ambient English pop singer with a trace of Sade) sings "I Believe In You" over the ending titles.
Movie: B-
Music: C