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David McK (3576 KP) rated The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1) in Books

Jan 28, 2019

I remember when I was at university, I had an English tutor who stated that he though crime fiction was the best kind of fiction there is. At the time I didn't agree with him. I still don't.

Indeed, I think that if he had read this book he would have changed his own tune: this is needlessly graphic, uncomfortable and plodding, with crime scene forensics being the main 'draw' (if I can even use such a word about this) to any potential reader.

In short: one to avoid.

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David McK (3576 KP) rated Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) in Movies

Dec 14, 2019 (Updated Nov 20, 2020)

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

2018 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

6.1

(42 Ratings)

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Third outing for Rowan Atkinson's Johnny English, still just as incompetent as before in another James Bond style spoof outing.

This time, he is pulled out of retirement after a cyber attack reveals the identities of all of England's active spies, with Johnny (and his sidekick Bough, again played by Ben Miller) thus a 'low tech' solution to a high tech problem.

Rowan Atkinson does his usual rubber-faced buffoonery throughout, with a bit of glamour provided by Olga Kurylenka in a film that, while inoffensive enough, never really seems to 'catch fire'.